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Dìdi (弟弟) 2024
A lively little coming of age film that feels spot-on to the lived teen experience of 2008.
Heartfelt moments, intimately shot, with heartbreak. Perfectly captures what it was to find your place in those transitional years between familial life & childhood friends, and the growth outwards from that bubble into hobbies, the opposite sex, and subcultures.
Didi/wangwang/chris/Asian Chris/ Didi again finds his way-and his various names-through the social dynamics of *existing* in different social groups. Each time he violates one of…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Second watch, a couple years later.
Wowza, what a fun and emotional and artful and gleeful and irreverent and imaginative film. Loved it even more than the first time.
Truly what movie can make you laugh, cry, laugh again, do some existential thinking then cry again. It features some of the most wacky genre mashups & references (the matrix, ratatouille, etc.) and it all just… works.
At its core a beautiful story about a mother reckoning with her relationship with her daughter, Everything Everywhere All At Once is a wild, surreal ride. Absolutely reccomend to anyone and everyone.
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Prince of Darkness 1987
John Carpenter is firing on all cylinders here.
While not as tightly plotted (imo) as The Thing or Big Trouble in Little China, this movie holds together well and features really creepy performances-plus a punchy, moody score from the prince of synth John C. himself.
Speaking of performances—lovely to see familiar faces from other Carpenter productions in Donald Pleasance (Halloween), Dennis Dun & Victor Wong (Big Trouble In Little China). They both bring the most personality of any characters here, which…
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The Keep 1983
Deeply flawed but incredible movie.
The Keep centers on a bunch of nazis in the Carpathian Alps unleashing an unspeakable evil entombed in a mysterious structure above a village. You’d think that by this point in the war they would have learned better about messing around with mystical objects like the ark of the covenant or the holy grail.
Gorgeously shot, with decent acting, and a transcendental soundtrack. But when your studio asks you to cut 100 minutes out of…
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