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  Imperium 2016

  Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Still parsing my thoughts on this one. The Hollywood gloss prevents it from ever authentically presenting the banality of evil, even with its handling of the Jerry character.

  It has some good points, to be sure. It does, for instance, have some understanding of how far right groups work and the disinformation channels they exploit to penetrate mainstream discourse.

  Nevertheless, it's just all so on the nose. It knows that a grift economy sustains a big part of this world,…

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Worlds within worlds and times outside time; prisoners of others' fantasy become prisoners of their own and then imprison others, doing violence upon reality. When does escape become imprisonment? For one brief moment, is it worth it?

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  Sexual Pneumonia & Laziness 1981

  Watched 22 Dec 2024 3

  This is a weird one. Like many of the more obscure 'Clasificada 'S'' films, it doesn't appear to be available in any English friendly version, so I watched it in Spanish.

  From what I managed to gather, we follow an actress named Cristina. During a lunch break in shooting what looks like some kind of giallo, she ingests some allegedly 'pure' olive oil purchased from a street vendor wearing a bikini and a hazmat helmet. The catch? Now anytime she…

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  The Sinister Doctor Orloff 1984

  Watched 20 Sep 2023

  Alfred Orloff is one sick puppy. You know it's bad when Orloff Sr. (the Awful Doctor himself) becomes the voice of moderation and endeavours to temper his son's psychosexual mania. It must be said that his efforts are a little halfhearted when he adopts a 'one more strike' policy before he'll kick his son out of the castle. 'But dad....' Alfred pretty much whines, '...just one more victim...'. Alfred even has his own golem-like automaton to facilitate his crimes (an…