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Nosferatu 2024
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is not simply a retelling of a vampire myth—it is a meditation on sin, corruption, and the inversion of the sacred. It inherits the weight of its predecessor, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), the only horror film included in the Vatican’s 45 Important Films list. That inclusion signals something essential: horror, when wielded with care, can be a profound exploration of spiritual truths. Eggers understands this lineage and doesn’t shy away from the theological weight of his subject…
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996
In the mid-1990s, Walt Disney Animation Studios did something remarkable: they took Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a novel dense with themes of sin, damnation, discrimination, and abuse of power, and shaped it into a film that could appeal to a mass audience. That they succeeded at all is impressive. That they did so without wholly sanding down the novel’s bleakest edges—leaving in infanticide, genocide, religious hypocrisy, and the nature of damnation—is astonishing. The Hunchback of Notre Dame stands…
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Cinderella 2015
Disney’s live-action remakes have, for the most part, been exercises in redundancy. Instead of breathing new life into their animated classics, many of these adaptations feel like inferior cover versions—films that seek to replicate the original frame-for-frame while adding little of substance, ultimately raising the question of why they exist at all. For every remake that claims to “reimagine” its predecessor, there’s another that merely stretches an animated story into a bloated runtime, weighed down by unnecessary exposition and photorealistic…
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Rewind 2023
Aside from having the same plot as What If…Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead Of His Hands?, Rewind is a film that on a basic level, is a morality tale about a bad man learning to be good. It does what it needs to with telling its lesson. However, Rewind is everything I have grown to dislike about modern Filipino cinema: its propensity for excessive melodrama, reliance on clichéd and overused character archetypes, boring cinematography, a monotonous soundtrack, and an inclination…
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