the conventional wisdom is that Katsuhiro Otomo did “Akira” and not much else, just one other comic (“Domu”) and one other movie (“Steamboy”). and while it’s accurate that “Akira” — an eight-year, 2000+ page comic, and its justly beloved cartoon adaptation — constitutes the vast bulk of his career… it’s not quite true: Otomo has done a little other work, it’s just that most of his other comics work was scattered early shorts and series that were never finished (or…
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Agent Trouble 1987
^ incredible plot summary, up there. here it is, in full, in case Letterboxd ever replaces it with something more coherent/professional:
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by authorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
this is still a bad movie, but luckily there’s an extra-long copy in every home, so you can always easily fall asleep to it when you have insomnia while housesitting
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The Public Woman 1984
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
upon the re-watch, my fellow viewers (seeing it for the first time) did not even process the reveal/twist that the movie-within-a-movie is a front, a fake, a sham; that Kessling's manipulation of Ethel is a put-on, a pretense, that his real goal is to manipulate Milan into assassinating the Archbishop; that her part is just as a pawn and a contrived alibi, rather than a starring role; that Kessling' final "suicide" is probably just unseen forces covering their tracks, rather…
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