“I’ve seen things that would make Isaac Newton want to crawl back into his mother’s womb”.
I’m gonna try really hard to insert that line into a casual conversation at some stage this year. Maybe with an Uber driver or a distant relative, just to spice up the smalltalk.
The prod design was the best of any period film I’ve seen in years. There were a few frames that had me mumbling things like “ooof that’s nice”, “fuck yeah”, “now…
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Nosferatu 2024
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Memoir of a Snail 2024
Not to get too lofty or anything but: aside from space flight and the production of the Arnott’s bbq shape, stop-motion-animation might be the highest form of human achievement.
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Coraline 2009
Second only to Pan’s Labyrinth and the Wizard of Oz, watching this was maybe the most seminal viewing experience of my childhood. From the moment that doll floats through the window and those spindly needle hands get to work, I was head-over-heels in love with this movie, and remember feeling, aged 10, bitterly disappointed that I hadn’t made it myself. I would scoff at kids in my class who claimed they’d been too scared to finish it. Wusses. I was…
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Come and See 1985
The most unrelenting testament to human evil I have ever, and probably will ever see. I was paralysed by the end. I’m no expert when it comes to war films, but I really struggle to see how there can be one better than this. This movie is unforgiving in its commitment to depicting the truth of what war is: a litany of bloodshed and suffering in which humans with hearts and souls are driven to commit acts of unspeakable evil,…
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