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Recent reviews

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  Mad God 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2024

  A visually and mentally cacophonous ride into mindscapes of madness, gore, absurdity and gloom. Somewhat exhausting but never to the point of fatigue.
  It’s truly a unique unprecedented cinematic feat. 

  The closest description would be if Jan Švankmajer collaborated with Lynch in making a Tool video, but they hate tool and make a GWAR video instead.
  But in the year 2095.
  After the cinemapocalypse. 

  I knocked half a star off the score due to the use of real humans in some scenes, I don’t think that totally gelled for me.

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  My Man Godfrey 1936

  ★★★ Watched 16 Jul 2023

  It’s becoming more and more apparent that screwball comedy doesn’t work for me.
  My Man Godfrey is even pretty toned down and slow paced for a screwball which should make me like it more but it still doesn’t click. 
  A very obvious case of a cinematic “It’s not you, it’s me”.

Popular reviews

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  Ruslan and Ludmila 1972

  ★★★★½ Added 1

  If you want beautiful, larger than life, epic fantasy sagas with a massive production value and an overall whimsical atmosphere...always look east.
  And i dare say that 'Ruslan i Lyudmila' is the Citizen Kane of the east European 'fantastika' productions.
  The original folk-tale/poem by Alexander Pushkin may be simple, yet timeless, and while the movie adaption also may be quite simple story wise it makes up for it tenfolds visually. The whole aesthetics of it looks like a Ivan Bilibin…

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  Moonrise 1948

  ★★★★½ Added 3

  The shadows of film noir may grow long in the city but it's nothing compared to the darkness of the rural south.

  Danny Hawkins has been plagued by bullies his whole life; his criminal father's conviction and execution is forever hanging over him like a curse. One night the boiling point is reached. In a fit of uncontrollable rage, when trying to fend for himself, he kills his long time upper class tormentor Jerry Sykes.
  His sweetheart Gilly Johnson soon…