A simple drama that I have an extreme soft spot for after only one viewing. It is masterful in the way it balances and weaves a coy high-school, woman coming of age narrative that is genuinely leasuirely to follow with a near sci fi premise containing motifs of time and space travel to metaphor what it's like to develope those organs and — 'fall in love'. As the plainly but beautifully photographed film goes on it is more prone to…
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Robo Vampire 1988
Godfrey Ho is a genius, don't let the rating get you. Did you know you wanted robocop who died from drugs instead of bullets fight off ancient mystic vampires? Did you know you wanted to watch that spliced with 2 other movies whose scenes are seemingly randomly intercut between a 'main' plot thread?
No structure, almost no recurring characters, stock footage, shots that were lifted DIRECTLY from other films coming out at the time, guns that don't work unless they're…
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1917 2019
I don't have much to say, but I'll start with an anecdote:
I put off watching Gaspar Noe for so many years because his films were called gimmicky by some peers, and I was a teenager who bent to such whims. They were described as "POV movies where people have real sex, do drugs, etc." and I had no interest, fuck Hardcore Henry so to say.
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Cyberbully 2011
A Jesters game, if you play your cards right. Can be a fun comedy with the right crowd of goons.
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