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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  I'm vomiting thoughts here for some reason.

  Despite dropping an image once every ten minutes that had me grinning, the first half didn't quite work for me.

  Something overwrought about the overly fussy, choreographed camera moves and the overbearing score dragged it down during what is my favourite part of the novel.
  Lots of "stylish" moves and perspectives that aren't rooted in a characters pov or the drama of the scene. It felt a touch too prissy and mannered when…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★½ Watched 17 Oct 2024

  The fucking guy from memento could follow the plot of this movie.

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  Something Doesn't Feel Right 2019

  Watched 09 Nov 2021 7

  There's a relief to watching something you made years later and realising that's its not bad.
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  Blackbird 2018

  Watched 18 Dec 2022

  Fair play to Eric Roberts. Got a holiday out of this.

  Great fun. Just an absurd vanity project.

  There's a young wan who my wife and i assumed was a spy because she kept trying to seduce this old hotel manager (flatley) who everyone inexplicably loves. Then we realised that he's just meant to be ridiculously attractive to her and both cracked up.

  He's created a world where everyone thinks he's cool and everyone laughs at his jokes. It's both mortifying and great craic to see from the outside.

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