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Mickey 17 2025
In madcap sci-fi fashion a là Okja or Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-Ho skewers the grotesqueries of late-stage capitalism as well as the politics it engenders: from the obsession with image over substance, through the ways in which imperial and colonial thinking keep coming back from the dead, to the treatment of working people as disposable while manufacturing their consent for maltreatment, it's all here and filtered through Bong's saucy lens. It has a lot to say, then, and it does so…
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Blue Velvet 1986
Do you know what the concept of unfalsifiability is? Bear with me here, I promise this review is going somewhere.
As I'm sure you can probably guess if you didn't already know, something that is unfalsifiable is something that cannot be proven false. For example, imagine I told you that I had a magical, invisible tiny pink elephant in the palm of my hand. Imagine I further told you that not only could this magical pink elephant not be seen,…
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Last Night in Soho 2021
Some films, the very best films in fact, leave you sitting in the cinema unable to move, watching the credits roll, dazed. This film is one of them.
The way it draws you in with deft character work and relatable situations, the tightening of the screws as things begin to get weird, the operatic terror of the final act; everything is calibrated to perfection, the visuals, the script, the performances and the sound flowing together so well that by the…
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Rare Beasts 2019
At once an anti-romcom that follows the structure of a romcom but mercilessly subverts every one of its tropes, a viciously dark satire on the misogyny- both overt and internalised- that infests us, and a bacchanalian portrait of all the self-interested, cruel grotesqueries of modern society. Ultimately, it reveals itself to be about self-loathing, and how, when one truly hates oneself, all of the above is simply how one sees the world. It's an audacious creative choice, and while I…
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