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The Northman 2022
Second viewing! The pacing is significantly better this time around, even though I liked it the first time. Didn’t feel like it lost it’s way in that 3rd to 4th act this time. A slightly higher minded Conan the Barbarian. Great fun from a filmmaker who is usually more intellectual. Intriguing in that way instead of deep like the Lighthouse
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Strange Days 1995
Blake Howard of One Heat Minute podcasts has a new series called Too Much Movie. That is this movie! It is too goddamn much! Near future sci-fi, LAPD specific racism, corruption, voyeurism, snuff, drug addiction, a murderer/rapist, the entertainment industry, and romance between a white man and a black woman are all in this thing! Does it handle all of them well? Absolutely not! Do I care? Also absolutely not! It’s a 2 and a half hour adrenaline rush of…
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Saint Maud 2019
A great examination of faith as sexual sublimation. Really difficult to watch a person fall more and more down into her own psyche due to overwhelming loneliness. It doesn’t help that she’s a total, well, c-word. Felt longer than it’s 90 minute run time, but that’s just as well. Interestingly timed, today (when I’m writing this) is Bill Paxton’s birthday, and there are some thematic connections between this and his Frailty movie.
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Anything for Jackson 2020
This was lean and mean! Good creature designs, good plotting, even manages to make some of the characters be sympathetic. I’m not saying more than that, though, because the movie was a delightful surprise for me, and I hope it will be that for others. Go in knowing little
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