cinemaquinas

cinemaquinas

Conspicuous consumption of that sublime object of ideology, cinema

Favorite films

  • The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
  • Om Shanti Om
  • Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
  • Branded to Kill

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  • Deya Neya

    ★★★½

  • Grand Theft Hamlet

    ★★★

  • Welcome Back

  • Proloy

    ★★★

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  • Deya Neya

    Deya Neya

    ★★★½

    The comedy of manners and the parallels worlds of the slow burn romance needed at least another hour to end at the pace it needed, but screetime and tuberculosis wait for none. Can't blame the writer of so many glorious songs derailing the narrative for his own ends. He lives! He writes! Bigger the triumph than the love and adulation it accidentally engenders, devolving from fanaticism to marriage.

  • Grand Theft Hamlet

    Grand Theft Hamlet

    ★★★

    Using a game (as opposed to game engines) and the chaotic but, over time, also extremely serialised and distributed experience of playing it online and multi-player, where the animus is from the enormity of all the decisions — gameplay, eating, walking, working, peeing — that the pandemic turned reality into for so many over the years and continues to threaten reality with is the most original thing I've seen in a while. Everyone complaining that it's scripted forgets that so…

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  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    ½

    If the MCU is the longest running cinematic soap opera then it needs to be cancelled.

  • Evil Dead Rise

    Evil Dead Rise

    ★★★★

    Brings the horror from the early films and the slapstick humour of the later ones out from the forested cabin and its youthful delinquency into a full fledged low-income urban setting and its familial trappings. It then turns the screw on each of these, burning and twisting its tendrills into a twisted whole whose family romance takes no prisoners.

    The wide shots establish a world consistently choked by horizonality. The only way out is down. Giving birth is a(n) (im)position.…