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  • The Gorge

    ★★

  • Swan Song

    ★★★½

  • Life During Wartime

    ★★

  • Phantasm

    ★½

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  • The Gorge

    The Gorge

    ★★

    Very silly and dumb.  Probably a good first date movie. Lots of dumb action and sexy folks being cool and shooting monsters.

  • Swan Song

    Swan Song

    ★★★½

    Great performances by Ali and Harris.  Nice subtle world-building and interesting concept. It had quite a lot of logic problems but the focus is really on the emotionality of it all.  It’s fairly heavy-handed with its emotional manipulation and predictable dramatic beats but overall it works.

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  • Frank Zappa - Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

    Frank Zappa - Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

    ★★★

    A very schizophrenic doc about Frank Zappa’s connection to Sicily. 

    On one hand it’s about his family coming to Sicily to accept a posthumous honorific on his behalf, and also delves into the History and the recent dynamics of the Zappa family.  We see his kids visit places their father did back in 1982 when he ended a tour there.  

    On the other hand it’s about Frank’s friendship with a man from Sicily. 

    On another hand it’s about the…

  • Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences

    Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences

    ★★★★★

    A heady whirlwind melange of absurdist science fiction, philosophy and performance art with a soupçon of social commentary and satire.

    Other than that its a totally normal music-filled movie about a robot woman in a bar studying humans and judging them by their texts, emails and social media, in preparation for her launch into space.  

    Full of McAbee’s dry wit and wild creativity.  Looking forward to another viewing because I know I didn’t grok it all at the premiere.  …

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