Without a single original or interesting idea beyond the double-duty lead performances of Robert De Niro (as a quiet Robert De Niro type) vs Robert De Niro (as a sociopathic Joe Pesci type), you're not going to see anything in "The Alto Knights" that hasn't already been distilled down to a Scorsese-science and used up for all it's worth decades ago. Nor will you find so much as a second of visual, editorial or stylistic flourish from Barry Levinson's disengaged…
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The Electric State 2025
"The Electric State" misses the point of its source material and bungles its allegorical attempts at being pro-immigrant so spectacularly that it somehow comes to the grotesque, literally dehumanising conclusion that "Immigrants and asylum seekers are like objects, and we shouldn't get rid of them because they're quirky and useful for difficult jobs".
Well then, what's the core text if that's the ghoulish implication of its heinously ill-conceived subtext? That's easy: corporate brands are indivisible from the American cultural consciousness.…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Anybody else wonder what the Fremen's policy on cum is? Crying, barfing and spitting are all deemed as herecy or a sign of respect due to their expenditure of precious fluid, but what about nutting? Is jerking off banned? Is it just no-nut November forever?!
Oh, the film was fucking great btw.
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Poor Things 2023
Populist arthouse out here trojan-horsing socialism, sex-positivity, awareness of consent and Scottish literature into multiplexes under the guise of "Emma Stone speaks like a cognitively impaired, horny as hell Mary Poppins for 141 minutes".
Any film that draws visually from "Naked Lunch", "The Island Of Doctor Moreau" and "Grim Fandango" whilst featuring Mark Ruffallo exclaiming the word "Cunt" approximately 55 times was always going to win me over.
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