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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Robert Eggers may be the director who excites me the most when I learn they have a new project in the works. This one maintains, but does not particularly increase my level of excitement. This of course does not mean there is nothing to complement. If it maintains anything from his other work, it's their visual splendor. From the vast to his vision of 19th century Germany to the intimate - even a simple shot of the vampire face to…

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  The People's Joker 2022

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  This is a delightfully strange and funny piece of outsider art I'm simply glad I was able to watch due to the obvious copyright issues. Is Vera Drew a die-hard DC fan, did she make the association with Joker's smile and masking and go from there, or both? Whatever the case may be, it's an inspired way to inform that sadly, the trans experience, like the autistic one, means having to do a whole lot of pretending you are fine.…

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  The Deer Hunter 1978

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jan 2021 2

  The Deer Hunter is easily one of my favorite Best Picture winners. It's been said that the best movies are about something and that they're about something else. In addition to capturing the disillusionment and dearth of patriotism found in America during and after the Vietnam War, it depicts adult bonding and friendship in a sweeping, near-operatic and indelibly affecting way. There is a lot to praise here from the sudden and jarring transition to the war and its harrowing…

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Oct 2021

  For starters, I love the flawed gem that is David Lynch's version and couldn’t help but compare this adaptation to it in this review. Is it confusing at times and perhaps too strange? Maybe, but the movie inspired me to read the novel and led me to being a lifelong Lynch fan, so it must have done something right. If I was forced to keep only one of these two adaptations on DVD, it would be the Lynch one and…

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