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  • Love Streams
  • A Face in the Crowd
  • Lemonade Joe
  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death

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  • Wicked City

    ★★★★

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★½

  • Toby Dammit

    ★★★★½

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  • Wicked City

    Wicked City

    ★★★★

    I am pretty sure that I just watched some kind of PCP addled, X-Men, David Ickian, body horror melodrama. That very dramatic string section never lets up for an instant. I know nothing about anime and find the whole idea of live action adaptations ammusing. Thoroughly batshit, ridiculous movie with awesome cgi, practical effects, slime and lighting.

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★½

    I was very moved by the first 2/3rds of this film and a little frustrated by the ending. It's easy to imagine that the shooting of action and production of a film comes with increased difficulty when it is made in secret under the threat of imprisonment. Completing this thing at all was an accomplishment. The move of combining real cellphone footage of violence and protests with narrative under the isolation of an apartment worked very well. The mother was…

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  • Gun Crazy

    Gun Crazy

    ★★★★½

    Classic American tale about making a career out of your hobbies and sharing them with your true love.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★½

    I mostly just like the 70s soft core porn vampire flicks from France and Spain where lesbians seduce hitchhikers and drink their blood. We like the topic of vampires and are fond of many other prominent directors contribution to this tradition. However, this struck me as a cross between Harry Potter and a bad Zombie flick. Pretty sure it was filmed by a drone or I am stuck in some kind of video game. I guess people don't make movies anymore.

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