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  The Northman 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Apr 2022

  While less ambitious in narrative, The Northman supersedes the scale of Eggers’ previous works monumentally whilst also providing long time fans with all of the oddities and bizarreness that they have come to expect. The Northman sets itself aside from The VVitch and The Lighthouse through abandoning the narrative complexities and deceitful storytelling in favour of a traditional structure and a premise whose absolute simplicity allows for all of Eggers’ quirks to fill the gaps in-between. Performances across the board…

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Apr 2022

  Long time without reviews, kind of lost my passion for it, but we back. 

  Fuck you Nolan.

  This is how you manipulate time regarding extra-terrestrial/supernatural phenomena whilst still imbuing your film with an emotional core. I could nitpick at the exposition in Arrival, as if you make a sci-fi film with the presence of even slightly complicated laws or rules, you’re inevitably going to have to explain it to the peanut gallery modern audience. Hence, I don’t really hold the…

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  Space Jam: A New Legacy 2021

  Watched 08 Jul 2021

  This is either really self aware or one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. To think I will never get this 2 hours back is actually so depressing. It was so fitting my local theatre managed to show this in the worst quality possible which made the whole affair look like a youtube video from 2007. The plot is absolutely fucking bonkers and I cannot even remember half of it already. While the first one was kind of…

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Nov 2020

  This was super normal in comparison to Mulholland Dr, and I kind of loved it. After tossing up between 4 and a half and 5 stars, I think Lynch deserves the latter. Such a surreal take on the now classic “small town mystery” that is genuinely exhilarating. And I also cannot stress how much I loved Kyle MacLachlan’s performance as Jeffrey, why have U never heard this come up in a best performances list like ever? He was so encapsulating…

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