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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 08 Oct 2024

  Skibidilopolis. (Did I use that correctly?)

  The truth is that Megalopolis defies simple ratings, much as it defies conventional logic, storytelling and just about every other movie convention in existence. There's no way to look at Coppola's Objectivist fuckery dressed up in Shakespearian parable except as the unhinged passion project it is, nurtured and festering for forty-plus years and throwing every single one of them up on the screen.

  How else to explain breathtaking CGI landscapes alongside some of the…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2024

  Can't believe how long I sat on watching this. Being the Empire Strikes Back kind of sequel, it follows that it's bigger, heavier and more confident while still being heartfelt, visually kaleidoscopic and relentlessly inventive. I gotta say, though, I was really feeling that runtime by the halfway point - it's not just the sheer number of new characters and plot lines crammed in, there's a point where it threatens to take a more-is-less approach, sacrificing intimacy for spectacle and…

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  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Aug 2023 8

  I somehow ended up watching this while trapped at home with COVID, which was its own kind of torturous experience.

  Having never paid much attention to Apocalypse Now growing up despite it being one of my dad's favorites (which usually turns me against films), there's something grimly fascinating about seeing the madness captured on both sides of that camera - the sheer amount of hubris, blind luck and dogged perseverance that went into a movie which not only defined a…

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  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Apr 2023 2

  Being a Dungeons & Dragons neophyte, I have no doubt a lot of things went clean over my head. But that doesn't stop this being far and away the most accessible adaptation we were probably going to get.

  The whole cast, particularly Chris Pine and Regé-Jean Page, is on point, knowing exactly what kind of movie they're in and finding the right semi-serious notes to play. Cinematography is fantastic, particularly an early chase scene that nearly convinces you it was done…

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