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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  I think chaos is an understatement. Everything was constantly in motion, there were so many sounds, and so much shouting, and yet the clock kept ticking regardless. Extremely anxiety-inducing! I don't think I found it as funny as it was intended to be, however, it did get some genuine laughs. I really loved the whole 70s aesthetic, and there were some really great performances. Special mention to BOTH Nicholas Brauns, and I am always happy to see Lamorne Morris a.k.a Winston Bishop <3

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2025

  The very concepts of watching a film and being a spectator are challenged, as the audience are no longer simply watching a story unfold, but they are put into the position of the characters who are living it through the unique use of first-person perspective. The film’s stunning visuals tell the story in an almost poetic fashion, as they mimic the experience of being inside the mind of an individual, thus giving the film a deep introspective quality not often…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★ Watched 20 May 2024

  I was on board for most of this, and then it spiralled a bit too much at the end. However, overall, it was an entertaining, high energy, dark comedy/grotesque body horror. Every aspect of this was exaggerated and amplified to the max, and what results is a loud spectacle that boldly screams its messages, as opposed to subtely expressing them. Although this adds to the garish, stylised nature of the film, it oftentimes felt shallow or too on the nose.

  There are some truly gory moments of body horror in this, but somehow I was most disgusted by Dennis Quaid eating shrimp.

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  White Noise 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Oct 2022

  Baumbach's White Noise is louder and busier than what we've come to expect from him. As an 'airborne toxic event' descends, the world temporarily devolves into chaos. However, the more palpable threat felt throughout the film is the fear of death. This fear is a constant presence among the beautiful, vibrant colours of Baumbach's world. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig perfectly portray this strangeness, the darkness of death and the vibrancy of life. Along with the great soundtrack, this is a wonderfully supernatural and chaotic depiction of a very real and human fear.

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