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A Quiet Place: Day One 2024
Lupita Nyong'o is basically perfect in everything, and really sells her character here, Sam: already terminally ill and facing death even before the violent end of the world.
And her cat (played by two real cats, Nico and Schnitzel) is wonderful.
I could stop the review there and it would be a positive review. And I had a good enough time with it, I guess, though maybe I was primed to expect more from the good word of mouth that…
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Promare 2019
Absurdly pretty but thematically incoherent. The astonishingly bold animation style and colour choices - and unexpectedly unsubtle queerness - make me not care so much about the nonsensical plotting or late reveals undermining some of the allegory.
The Promare are definitely Thetans though, right?
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The Last Dance 1993
Most of Juzo Itami's films are, in some way, critical of Japanese society - whether it's yakuza, politicians, the police, or something more minor and intricate. It took a while for me to realise where The Last Dance (aka Daibyouin, "The Seriously Ill Patient") was going. It's actually a plot hook that appeared in A Taxing Woman 2: a patient whose cancer diagnosis is withheld from them, and kept secret.
Until this film, and a little research, I didn't realise…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
There was a lot of hype riding on this and I'm so, so happy that it lived up to expectations. A fascinating reimagining of the original film, Godzilla all unknowable force of destruction, wrapped around some of the franchise's best ever human characters and a really unique setting in immediately postwar Tokyo.
It kept making me think of that viral tweet about someone on a plane thinking they're watching Shin Godzilla except it's really a family melodrama and wondering how…
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