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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  Watched 24 Feb 2025

  Wow.

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  After the Sunset 2004

  Watched 15 Feb 2025

  Thankfully, Brett Ratner was given enough money to make average movies in the 2000s and studios could afford to keep them in a vault for 20 years to later release them on Netflix as “classics”.

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  Barbie 2023

  Watched 23 Jul 2023

  Summary:
  Barbie is a semi-conscious reflection of the transition from older modes of identify construction - such as sincerity and authenticity - to one based on profilicity and the broader subordination of individual consumption to socialised consumption as the primary source of enjoyment under late capitalism. I propose that Barbie and Ken represent two modes of identity construction and that this is the essence or contradiction that drives the narrative. A result of this is an ideological gap between the…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  Watched 06 Jan 2025

  There are some great moments and the performances are a stand out as always with Eggers but I was left wanting in terms of style.

  The movie poses questions of modernity and of consent under the control by alien (social) forces. Depp's character signals as much in an early conversation and extends the question to one of the origin of unconscious desire within or without the self later on. The ending, for the most part, succeeds in solving the problem…

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