Media Studies teacher Aotearoa New Zealand, watching films the rest of the time.
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023
Another Wes Anderson + Roald Dahl collab. Why didn't I think of that!? Breakneck vocal delivery and scene changes kept me off my phone and the wonderful intertextuality of both Dahl & Anderson kept me there to the end. Refreshing to see a sort of vignette of this length work. I loved it. I could do more this length.
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The Legend of Cocaine Island 2018
Finally a story that answers that drunken party hypothesis of what would you do if you found 2 million dollars worth of coke on a beach? Loved this doco. Well shot and edited, and with just enough balance between US trailer trash meets diabetic businessman meets FBI to keep me entertained.
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Arrival 2016
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Arrival poses the question of whether in the face of an overwhelming global issue humanity could work together to solve a universal problem. Unlike, most alien encounters that quickly degrade into violence, Villaneuve’s film focuses on the work of female protagonist, played by Amy Adams, who is recruited by the US military to decipher the complex visual language of the heptapods. The heptapods, who look like huge bony hands with a pod like head, have come to earth, landing in…
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