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Nightshift 1981
Deep into the hour of the wolf, a young woman works the front desk of a strange hotel, impassively and silently bearing witness to the eccentrics, representing London’s various subcultures, who come and go. Rasta musicians busting down an impromptu Latin jazz set, pyromaniac punks, and aggrieved socialites all pass through; and we sense that the hotel acts as merely a transitory (dare I say liminal) space for a brief reprieve in their otherwise hectic lives. Played by Vivienne Westwood…
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Taking Off 1971
Two strait-laced parents find their daughter is missing, and spiral out into a series of misadventures as they try to track her down, fearing the worst. Along the way, they end up at a Tina Turner concert, smoke reefer with a bunch of parents of missing children, and play strip poker. All the while, their daughter is out getting an injection of folk music, the real hard stuff, straight to the vein at an audition (featuring a very young Kathy Bates!)…
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X 2022
Featuring the most unpleasant sex scene since Midsommar, X is a throwback to the horror films of the 70s, through the lens of the Golden Age of Porn. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the main influence on the film, of course, but it’s not a slavish homage, which was appreciated. I was a big fan of the director character, RJ, and his pretensions of making porn a cinematic event, “like they’re doing in Europe.” Even though everyone keeps telling him…
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Barbie 2023
I don’t know if it was just because I was very high when I saw this, but this was genuinely really good and clever. I should know better than to doubt my favorite power couple Greta and Noah, I suppose. When the Stephen Malkmus line dropped, I started cackling so hard that my friends looked at me, concerned. But they had no reason to fear. For I had become one with Barbieland. It’s Barbie’s world, we’re just living in it.
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