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  Godzilla vs. Biollante 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Godzilla vs. the keystone cops of bioengineering, with a cameo from Biollante.

  There is little to mask the influence of "Little Shop" here, and the tacked on spycraft is bonkers. Not nearly as batshit as the notion that a scientists wife soul was transferred to a bed of roses, that then became a godzilla hybrid.

  I watched Godzilla movies as a kid plenty, fastforwarding to the fight scenes like porn on a lunch break. Now a grown man, It's all about the bad dialogue and corniness, like watching porn ironically on a lunch break.

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  Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998

  ★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Come for the full-frontal shot of Daniel Craig, and stick around for the occasionally interesting Cinematography.

  This movie throws a lot of sylistic choices at the wall in an attempt to summon the style of Francis Bacon, and some of it sticks. It does however, muddle the emotional core of the film and the overwhelming narration has to try and make up the difference.

  Going into this, I wondered how Jacobi could inhabit the role, but my god does he…

Popular reviews

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2020

  This is a stunningly beautiful film. It’s the kind of movie that makes you want to visit the locations where it was shot (the long staircase, the sunken alley).

  If I try to think of it in terms of the moral of the story, it does get hazy. It does paint a startling picture of the gap between classes, which sounds easy but more often than not it’s crass (ex. Dark Knight Rises).

  The violence marks Bong’s work is present…

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  Caché 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2020

  Fair warning: If you don’t know anything about the Algerian war, as I didn’t, you’ll miss out on some of the subtext of this movie. Normally, I shy away from looking too deeply into a film, but it’s a bold statement here.

  Michael Haneke makes films about harsh realities, without all of the woman-hating baggage that Lars Von Trier has. Here, we have a family with no notion of the word “trust”.

  Our main character, is by all accounts a…