Men. Rage. Violence. Impotence. Long, patriarchal lineages of terror. All that blood spilled…
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Hard Boiled 1992
Neo-noir, slowmo bullet-hell. Hundreds of dead bodies. Kinetic and fierce action filmmaking.
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Saltburn 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
How many yes men or women did Emerald Fennell need to be surrounded by to enable her in churning out this smug, self-satisfied trash?
Saltburn masquerades around as piece of pulpy, anti-aristocratic satire, but a quick glimpse under the mask and it all falls to shit. What Saltburn really is, is the kind of snooty, aristocratic nonsense that Emerald Fennell (maybe?) believes she’s lacerating. Saltburn, like Keoghan’s Oliver is infatuated with wealth, it’s pomp and stature, and is also, like Elordi’s…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
The horrors of the industrial age; rendered intergalactic in scale and suffused with the symbolic terror of religious fervor - planet-dominating fiefs and arch-conspiracies, worm riding, messianic ascendence, apocalyptically destructive guerrilla warfare - Dune: Part Two strikes a prophetic tone, channeling it’s mystic compositions straight into your brain stem…
… and frankly, the addition of an intelligible arc which feels both wholly local to this particular film and like a set up for future developments is a massive boon. It…
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