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  Prey 2022

  ★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  After the sublime original, pretty much every subsequent film in this franchise has been a mixed bag. They're all generally good films with fun ideas but they could have all been better. Each one has tried to capture and transpose the essence of the original, but each one has fallen short in a different way. Prey is unfortunately no different.
  I enjoyed it's stripped back approach and it had some really neat ideas... however the execution of it all didn't…

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  Sanshiro Sugata Part Two 1945

  ★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2025

  The governmental national policy that shaped the uneasy propagandist nature of his second feature is in full swing again here with a government requested sequel to his first feature. Kurosawa how no interest in this project and it kinda shows.
  There's a retread of the first film's riverside duel with none of the original's style but some added racial caricatures of American sailors.
  The 'A' plot is filled with quite a few boring and predictable moments and its theme of…

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  The Enchanted 1984

  ★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  I finally cracked open my All The Haunts Be Ours Volume 2 boxset and decided upon this curious sounding 80s flick.
  Whilst the film overall felt a little underdone and didnt really deliver much of a satisfying payoff for any of its mysteries, I found the atmosphere and visual style partly made up for its shortcomings.
  I quite enjoyed weird synth soundtrack and random cutaways to spying animals in the woods. Lovely scenery too.

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  Premonitions Following an Evil Deed 1995

  ★★★★ Rewatched 21 Jan 2025

  Made as part of the anthology film Lumière and Company - essentially celebrating 100 years since the birth of cinema - It was shot with the original Lumière camera in one 52 second take.
  Lynch encompasses a variety of set-ups in those 52 seconds with some incredibly haunting images. I haven't seen the rest of Lumière and Company, but I'm fairly confident that the rest of the films will have a hard time topping the impression this one left on me.

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