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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Bong Joon-ho’s American films almost feel like a side project to his actual career. His Korean films, like Memories of Murder, Mother, and Parasite are masterclasses in suspense. Meanwhile, Snowpiercer, Okja, and now Mickey 17 feel more like live-action cartoons. And like side projects often are, the American films are playful, idiosyncratic, and not for everyone. 

  Of course, no matter the language, Bong Joon-ho can’t shake his class commentary inclinations. This time he packages it into a Starship Troopers-esque interplanetary…

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  Deep Red 1975

  ★★★½ Rewatched 14 Mar 2025

  Strange choices all around. Looks incredible though. And gotta love Goblin’s score (even if it sucks the suspense from each scene). It’s a pleasantly flawed film.

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2023 1

  It’s a beautiful film. A kind of greatest hits of Ghibli tropes. Because of that it’s kind of hard not to compare to Miyazaki’s other work. And it lands in the bottom half of his filmography for me. But that says more about the unbelievable quality of his earlier work. 

  The character design of the parakeets is so fun. The color pallet and world they inhabit is mesmerizing. And between the surreal visual of the face falling out of the…

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Aug 2024 1

  Feeling very galaxy brain after watching this for the 6th-ish time and being pretty sure I mostly understand it.

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