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  Entertainment 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Nov 2023

  I am Gregg Turkington

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  pffft you can’t go to the cinema these days without being radicalised. 

  This film is a text book example as to why art literacy is essential and the dialectics taking place on either side of the Zionism yay or nay is evidence it is not a skill in abundance. 

  My immediate take was “did I just sit through a 4 hour pro Israel propaganda film”? After some digesting and some discussion with The Lulunator (there are other reasons why this…

Popular reviews

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★½ Watched 22 Jul 2024 1

  First part really had me thinking this would turn out to be a triumph, it wasn’t until the stale satanic ritual tropes came to light that this film started to get duller and more predictable. Cage, as always, stole the show…but maybe that was part of the issue? I thought the lead, Maika, was so compelling. I would have loved to have seen an obscure short film starring just Cages character and then followed the FBI agent on a gritty…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  We really do live in the age of the edit. Caught between theatrical Arthouse and blockbuster sell out, picking one would have had a better pay off. First half was divine, after the return though it was just flipping between one scene to the next, maxed out the intensity so it was just bland once you climatised to the mood. 

  Aesthetically beautiful, immersive as usual with Eggman. 

  Whack soundtrack, Robin ran one of the most interesting labels to ever do…

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