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  • Possession
  • Perfect Blue
  • House
  • The Blues Brothers

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  • The Railrodder

    ★★★

  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    ★★★★

  • The Great Muppet Caper

    ★★★½

  • Robin Hood

    ★★★½

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  • Last Days

    Last Days

    ★★★½

    The suicide of Kurt Cobain tore a hole in the hearts of many Northwesterners and music lovers, as the death of the musician that spoke directly to the disaffected youth and helped revolutionize rock music by letting people know it could belong to the average man was something people latched onto and hailed him as an icon. The person that hated this romanticization of the nobody-turned-mainstream legend, however, was Cobain himself, as he resented becoming a buzzword that could be…

  • Moonage Daydream

    Moonage Daydream

    ★★★★★

    Roughly two weeks from now, David Bowie would've turned 76 years old were it not for liver cancer claiming his life in 2016, and on that same thread his first monomentual pivot towards glam rock, Hunky Dory, recently turned 51, Station to Station is barreling down the train tracks to its 47th anniversary, Low, his most sparse, minimalistic, and personal album 46, and his swan song , the bitter reminder that one of the most legendary artists is truly gone and he intimately…

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  • Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes

    ★★★★

    In the early 1960's, French novelist Pierre Boulle is visiting a local zoo and is amused by the sight of apes mimicking many of his, as well as other visitors', movements, sensing a connection between how apes function and how humans function in contemporary society and wondering what would happen if the roles were reversed, if the humans were trapped to mimic the passive apes gawking and pointing at this animal of nature. Ten years prior, Boulle had great success…

  • The Rocketeer

    The Rocketeer

    ★★★½

    Pop nostalgia fluctuates quite intensely, we can never be truly sure how long a revival era will last as artists from a wide range of ages reflect on the media they absorbed that changed them into fellow visionaries, meaning a decade could live on and span multiple more decades of art. We're seeing this now with 80's nostalgia, only recently escaping current vogue status as the current fresh batch have begun ruminating on the culture and trends of the 2000's…

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  • Serial Experiments Lain

    Serial Experiments Lain

    ★★★★★

    (NOTE: THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE ENTIRE SERIES EPISODE-BY-EPISODE. AS SUCH, SPOILERS ARE PRESENT ALL-AROUND. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED).

    Few series have had their legacy defined by mystique and complete obliqueness like Serial Experiment Lain, delving into complex themes like the nature of reality, identity, and communication just as the internet’s interconnected stream of information began taking the form it takes today. Forming a trifecta of late 90’s anime mindfucks alongside Neon Genesis Evangelion and Revolutionary Girl Utena, a…

  • Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance

    Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance

    ★★½

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    I miss the old Asuka
    Straight from the Go Asuka
    Chop up the soul Asuka
    Set on her goals Asuka
    I hate the new Asuka
    The bad mood Asuka
    The always rude Asuka
    Spaz in the news Asuka
    I miss the sweet Asuka
    Chop up the beats Asuka
    I gotta say, at that time
    I'd like to meet Asuka
    See, I invented Asuka
    It wasn't any Asukas
    And now I look and look around
    And there's so…