Jacob_G

Jacob_G

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  • Scavengers Reign
  • World of Tomorrow
  • Her
  • 2046

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  • Station Eleven

    ★★★★½

  • Darkness, Light, Darkness

    ★★★★½

  • Monster Movie

    ★★★★★

  • Drive

    ★★★★½

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  • Drive

    Drive

    ★★★★½

    The things you can achieved using neon lights, shadows, bloodstained clothes, a good synth line, and a melancholic look… an ethereal dreaming violently crashing into an indifferent reality.

  • Sonatine

    Sonatine

    ★★★★½

    If life is what happens when you are making other plans, then what happens when you have no plans or future goals?  Either you sit around waiting to die, or you do it yourself.  

    A film that intrinsically understands how easily the comedic can become tragic and the dramatic can become comedic when it’s all taken seriously enough.

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  • The Good Girls

    The Good Girls

    ★★

    It wants to be a realistic depiction of the sexism women face, and it gets the behaviour from men right.  It’s just the depiction of the girls is where it falls flat and offensive, seemingly unaware of the female element of this experience.  And so, any small development it makes towards the discussion is almost immediently undermined by making the girls sort of invite it...or view stalking as cute.

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★★

    A film filled with some of the most incredible music and articulate voices you’ve ever heard in your life— until the CIA and Belgian government start casually throwing out some of the most evil statements you have ever heard someone say.  An insidious process of watching and waiting for all the hope and process forward to come undone as the bodies pile up and the state sponsored bands play on— Malcolm X looks at every camera like he knows exactly…

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