The jazzy intro of Cowboy Bebop made literal, Across the Spider-Verse is a kaleidoscope of visual imagination and daring, tuned to a pulsating electro hip hop soundtrack, the film blasts off the screen with the gusto of a young person who knows what they're doing. But perhaps more than ever before, it is a difficult film to evaluate without its sequel, with the film ending on a beat so infuriatingly expectant that the word cliff-hanger was made for this (with…
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The Music Room 1958
The man is without honour, for honour is what matters to him the most.
Ray sees through the prism of artifice; it is a movie against stupidity. The stupidity of carrying false jewels and false airs and demanding others follow. The man succeeds in occasionally humiliating his rivals, not understanding that in the long run of things he has already lost. When loss becomes overwhelming, he turns into himself; but he does not repent. Time passes, wounds start healing, but…
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Across the Universe 2007
Not even quite sure where to start with this one.
The film itself starts off with seemingly no other intention but being a princess-with-pauper romance to the soundtrack of The Beatles before veering straight into avant-garde psychedelia that'll melt your comprehension, between fleeting concerns for police brutality and imperialism, before remembering that it was all about love after all by climaxing a story that dabbled in war & protest & class & freedom & racism with a bunch of people just getting back together.…
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Strange Darling 2023
warning: I might spoil the central twist of the film with my insinuations, but if you don’t figure it out yourself within the first 15 minutes or so, well, then you might actually enjoy the film
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The biggest disappointment of the fucking year.
Pretentious to its wasted core, starting with its pretitle declaration of having filmed on 35mm right up to its twee chapter headings and random black & white scenes and aimless dialogues grasping for realistic musings between two…
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Chainsaws Were Singing 2024
A joyfully violent horror comedy musical that wants to be a cult classic with every fibre of its being and, gosh darnit, might just succeed with flying colours.
But I am biassed. I saw it at the premiere with a room full of people as hopefully expectant as me (with many of them much more so), and I was there during the QA to appreciate how gracefully kind (in a guyishly shyish way) the director was, and how blown away…
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