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Recent reviews

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  Ae Dil Hai Mushkil 2016

  ★★½ Watched 04 Dec 2024 3

  Terrible final act that completely ruins what should have been tailor-made for me, given that one of my favorite things in cinema is seeing hot people act batshit insane — I know we've all been there right?

  Very moving SRK cameo and Anushka Sharma is still up there as one of the great rom-com leads. But more importantly is Channa Mereya just one of the best songs ever?

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  Here 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Nov 2024

  For Bob Zemeckis life is above all a cosmic joke.

  Think of the ending of Cast Away. Tom Hanks crosses paths with the same angel wings that accompanied him alone in the Pacific for four years. Once painted on a package that washed ashore after his fateful plane crash, he makes his way to God-knows-where Texas to return the same package back to sender. He gets lost, and a woman stops by to give him directions. He may even find…

Popular reviews

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  Can't Get You Out of My Head 2021

  ★ Watched 15 Feb 2021 15

  “Nothing ever change,” sing The Specials in the opening of Adam Curtis’ latest diagnosis of the modern world. On the contrary: many things have changed except Adam Curtis. The needle drops remain brilliant, the hours of BBC archive footage continue to haunt, and the central thesis you’ve probably heard before: people in power have simplified and distorted reality in order to better manage and control individuals, often leading to unforeseen and disastrous consequences. The most devastating of which, according to…

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  Apocalypse Now 1979

  ★★★ Rewatched 20 Dec 2021 1

  Working on the sound design of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola discusses how the soundtrack should give audiences the feeling of traveling back in time. True to his word, we begin with Jim Morrison, The Stones, just as Wagner crashes in to signal the start of our trip to the past. As the film progresses, the further our protagonist heads upriver, Père Coppola’s haunting electronic score, replicating primitive rhythms and Tomita synthesizers, takes over. By the film’s end, the…