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  Megalopolis 2024

  ½ Watched 04 Dec 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Aug 2024

  I thoroughly enjoyed this. The opening ratio calls to 70s horror nostalgia, and intersperses well with the 90s, Silence of the Lambs pastiche. Successfully terrifying, with great pace, and a supernatural commitment that I wasn't expecting. Performances were creepy and restrained, adding to the sense of menace throughout. Cage was characteristically unhinged - no amount of makeup and prosthesis could contain is derangement. Great stuff.

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  Antichrist 2009

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Oct 2023

  I'll hate me for saying this. This is as close to perfect as a film can get. Across multiple viewings, Antichrist offers a variety of readings. From structuralist to post, gender theory to toxic masculinity, and political economy to socialised constructs. Antichrist is a film that sets itself firmly in the genre of horror but then pivots to encapsulate the inquiry of a love story gone wrong. Grief, love, pain, extasy, desire, hate and satisfaction ( with all it's positives…

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  Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011

  ★★★ Watched 30 May 2024

  Perfectly acceptable popcorn amusement. Holds up well for, probably because it's full of heavy hitters enjoying themselves between other projects. Well shot; has a Nancy Myers sensibility, with a very relaxed pace.

  Perfectly acceptable apart from all the not-so-latent misogyny rolling side to side like a turbulent ship. Men are misunderstood victims of a crumbling societal masculinity, and, if they rediscover their confidence, they too can conquer strange women from the same goddamn bar, and then capture happiness. Women are here unfortunately tools that serve to reawaken men's agency...and that's about it.

  It's fine. I'm just a moan.

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