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Inland Empire 2006
“this is a story that happened yesterday. but I know it's tomorrow.”
a fractured poem, the decaying infrastructure of a psyche, reining in the concept of chaos reigns, cinema gone wild, an enigmatic spiderweb of visions from the beyond cast like a net into moments that leave an explosive impact far beyond their fleeting duration in space and time. this is Inland Empire, David Lynch’s final feature film.
in many ways, this is Lynch’s absolute masterpiece. for decades, this unrelentingly…
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Nosferatu 2024
when it was announced that Robert Eggers’ next film would be a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu, i was a little concerned. had one of my favorite—and arguably one of the best—living directors finally succumbed to making shameless cash grabs destined for Christmas Day release? fortunately, my apprehensions were quelled—or at least temporarily put to rest—by endorsements from people whose opinions on cinema i deeply respect. tonight, i had the chance to catch a 35mm screening at…
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Flow 2024
Flow is a wonderful new Latvian animated feature from director Gints Zilbalodis. from the very first few minutes, it was incredibly clear to me that it was made with a lot of love. there’s a remarkable attention to detail, and at the same time, a jagged, semi-broken, technologically rustic flare hard-coded into the picture’s fairly unique brand of animation. i wouldn’t go as far as saying it has a homemade quality, but you can feel the struggle the animators went…
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The Electric State 2025
i can only liken my experience of watching The Electric State to a combination of dragging myself through some kind of hellish fusion of a deeply mediocre Netflix original series, being force-fed an AI-generated prompt that fuses Alita: Battle Angel with Pixels and waking up into non-consensual full-scale heroin withdrawal. the whole movie was like pulling teeth. just when i thought it couldn’t get any dumber or be reduced further into mindless regurgitated swill, it would toss me another full-body…
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Dawn of the Dead 1978
i decided to rewatch what i think is easily George Romero’s masterpiece kind of on a whim today. at first, my plan was to watch it with the director commentary, but i just forgot to turn it on—and before i knew it, i was 30 minutes in and fully absorbed. i mean, how can you not enjoy Dawn of the Dead? this film has everything you’d want from a zombie movie and so much more, not to mention it serves…
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Bikini Summer 1991
i first encountered the Bikini Summer trilogy while sniffing around online this past week—or rather, i saw something about the third installment and, for whatever reason, decided the series required further investigation. about 30 minutes later, i found digital transfers of all three from VHS. fast forward to this evening, when a group of us were trying to pick something with a short runtime, and i hit the squad with Bikini Summer as an option. we sort of haphazardly settled…
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