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  GeoMarkr 2023

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  GEOMARKR: A video-essay about GeoGuessr
  By Trevor Pronoso

  GeoGuessr by way of renowned ethnographic filmmaker Chris Marker, a peculiar pairing for those familiar with the browser video game and even more perplexing for the few cinephiles that recognise Marker primarily as an insightful and poetic 'tour guide' for all the countless places he's visited and filmed with his camera with the intent of finally equalising and coalescing the cultural diversities of the globe into one language that is 'cinema', or…

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  Anora 2024

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  SHORT REVIEWS: Anora (2024)
  By Justin Agluba

  Could this be the modern sequel to Cinderella’s “happily ever after”?

  “God bless America,” moans Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn) as Anora (Mikey Madison) rubs her bare buttocks on his crotch the first night they meet in a strip club. Our Cinderella is no docile lentil-picker or the modest maiden of the Brothers Grimm, but an empowered seductress, a bird-charmer through and through. She’s a 23-year-old New York City erotic dancer who goes by the…

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  National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest 2025

  Watched 13 Mar 2025

  (NOT) SHORT REVIEWS: National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest (2025)
  By Daniel Tang

  Oscar Wilde would be proud.

  National Theatre Live is once again screening in Auckland, taping and showcasing the best of British Plays. Their films have included Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, Jodie Comer's Prima Facie, and now include Ncuti Gatwa and Co's hilarious late Victorian satire by Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest.

  Fundamentally about the relationships and identities of the core quad, this 1895 play…

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  Civil War 2024

  Watched 04 Apr 2024

  CRACCUM (Completely Restrained And Confined, Cinematic Unending Madness): Filcks to Partake During the Break

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  Civil War
  Alex Garland
  2024
  By Trevor Pronoso

  Stasis, zero-sum, objectivity of the image…

  Garland presents an image of America so ahistorical, so filled with stereotypes and deliberately shallow approximations of politically extremist/neutral parties within its deliberately dumbed-down diegesis of a divided nation. If you’ve seen the map outline of the several seceding states and alliances released by A24, you’re meant to doubt the alliance…

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