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X 2022
Don't watch much horror, so I may be way off on this, but the impression I get is that the horror scene has moved away from sex in the last 10 years or so. Which is unfortunate because horror and sex are an intoxicating combination.
So it felt refreshing to watch a picture in which horror and sex are (literal) bedfellows once more.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Dune seems to be one of those properties that has a huge following that never reached me. People love Dune in a way I'm a bit taken aback by but I think I bounced off it due to a vague air of crapness. It doesn't do too well on my naming test, with the naffly named Duncan Idaho, Stilgar and Gurney betraying a lesser writer. (Atreides, Harkonnen and Bene Gesserit are nice though.) Herbert's writing is stuffed with worldbuilding jargon.…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
I'm not totally new to Godzilla but this is actually the first Godzilla film I've sat down to watch. Really good shit, this. Very accessible but also rich, thrilling and moving.
Godzilla's role as a Jesus-like vehicle for national catharsis is so interesting. In Minus One, the big lizard is used to criticise Japan's tendency to valorise self-sacrifice.
I like that Godzilla is not humanised in any way. It is pure monster; the Western tradition might try to build a measure of empathy for it. Even Cloverfield did that to an extent.
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