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  Grand Tour 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  Screwball comedy for the 2020s. Haven’t ever been as confounded by a new movie in the cinema before. Some of this stuff is totally new to me - If there is a precedent for what this movie does with time specifically, I don’t know it (comment below). But worth it for the music alone, which covers more ground more beautifully than maybe anything I’ve seen - genuine world music, without the lame anglosized vaguarities! Throw in some Verdi and even…

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025 2

  Yeah, that ornette Coleman needle drop, what a fumble. Major blunder. You can’t come bursting in with one of the coolest songs of all time and play all but 5 seconds of it. Coleman didn’t even come in yet!!

  Save for a few overwhelmingly corny moments this comes out pretty good, and believe me… I was ready to hate!! Squeezing together these 5 years in the life of “BD” was one hell of a mountain to climb. I’d wager a…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 05 Jan 2025 2

  I defer to Ellie Wilson’s review except to lazily add that in comparison to the potent flashes of death in other versions (gimme max schreck all googly eyed in the doorway!) i found the smoothed over dim look somewhat uninspiring. But then again eggers kind of walked into that one. When you got material as great as the pestilence ridden ghost ship you gotta remember to capture some genuine doom. Instead the camera is flying around in the sky too…

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