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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Dec 2024

  **19 September 2024 in Cinemas | 2 hrs 20 mins | Drama, Horror**
  **Director:** Coralie Fargeat | **Screenwriter:** Coralie Fargeat
  **Cast:** Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid

  If you don’t clean today, you’ll have to do it tomorrow. If you don’t do your homework, you’ll end up with a lousy job later. And if you overindulge at the buffet, you’ll eventually no longer fit into your trousers. Life is a constant tug-of-war between multiple versions of yourself: you of today,…

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  Smile 2 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Nov 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Batman 2022

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  A Tale of Filipino Violence 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Oct 2022

  A Tale Of Filipino Violence
  A monumental cinema novel
  Original title: Isang salaysay ng karahasang Pilipino

  There is something compulsive and driven about Lav Diaz's cinema. The filmmaker, who has won multiple awards, including the Golden Lion (“ The Woman Who Left ”), repeatedly immerses himself in stories of violence in the Philippines and returns to the same gloomy diagnoses. He digs into wounds that won't heal. Old ghosts just don't want to rest. As is well known, Diaz takes…