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Entry 0-013-457: Ash
A mutant offshoot from the genetic line of Alien, Dead Space, Solaris (generously), and… I don’t know, The Callisto Protocol? In any case, it has evidently retained traces of its ancestors’ superficial distinguishing characteristics (spaceships, rave lighting, spooky hallucinations, memories of doomed expeditions, body horror) but lacks the homeostatic processes (a screenplay with specificity or texture beyond scenes that could be diverting as cutaways in a music video or cutscenes in a much longer and…
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The Organizer 1963
A class struggle isn’t won in a month, nor can it be organized by one man. Many workers, many battles, many organizers radicalized by them.
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
What a way to end 2022! Forget fireworks and champagne; give me a nighttime odyssey through sexual frustration and a close encounter with the horny Illuminati.
It’s so funny to think that some people not only were unimpressed by this movie upon its release, but they even took issue with a perceived lack of realism in its nocturnal New York. You don’t say? How does an erotic psychodrama not gain in potency from operating in a heightened reality where the…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Before reading the critiques of The Zone of Interest, I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen the invocation of Hannah Arendt’s work so widely abused. Its detractors (admittedly few) have compared it variously to a mama bird feeding its babies and to a misguided formal experiment from which we “learn nothing.” As if a movie’s educational value to you (or a presumed uninformed “normie” viewer, since we’re all so very smart here) is the best rubric for evaluating it. Some of…
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