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Infernum 2019
It’s fascinating to watch this after Marich has clearly found his niche with the Horror in the High Desert films. It shares actors and obsessions, specifically sound design, but the structure of the found footage fake documentary means he has been able to drop the stuff he’s less comfortable with. Sadly that’s the emotional plot, which really doesn’t convince at all, and the menace works when it’s focused and strange and able to be itself rather than stick too closely…
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Bone Tomahawk 2015
Technically it’s brilliant. The dialogue has something of the baroque genius of Deadwood, the performances are uniformly great - apart from Matthew Fox who clearly should not be wading this far away from television - and the direction is great. But it’s also very weirdly reactionary and inherently conservative in a way that feels quite uncomfortable. In an attempt to muddy the waters about having Native American villains acting like barbarians, they’re handily dismissed as “troglodytes” by the one dependable…
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Gregory's Girl 1980
there are reasons why this is my favourite film of all time. it has all the strange, unalloyed creative joy of "that sinking feeling" but this time it's all been pulled together to create, as far as i'm concerned, the single best cinematic tale of growing up as a teenager ever: in literature, in television, in cinema. all of it. it's all here, which is kind of my definition of a masterpiece - it sets out to say everything possible…
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David Brent: Life on the Road 2016
There’s a moment towards the end of this where Dawn substitute Karen spells out that underneath the bluster and bravado, David Brent is an admirable man and an optimist and we should all love him accordingly despite his human faults. The Office got to this conclusion carefully by taking Brent to the brink of self destruction and loathing and then delivering one of the sweetest and most surprisingly effective emotional moments of redemption in comedy history. This film however has…
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