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  Ferrari 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2023

  The ruthlessness of capitalism enables psychologies obsessed over capital and profit, of absolute success at the expense of morality and empathy. Mann ponders the fascinating q about the repression of grief that enables Ferrari to pursue the construction of a product, coupled with the rise of technologies that produce increasing visibility - the self-aware, hyper-conscious Ferrari embedded in, and feeding, cultural nationalism to embolden his image. The real danger of hubris is, perhaps, not the danger it poses to the…

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  Tish 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2023

  Solid doc but would have benefited from less talking heads, instead overlapping these interviews with archival footage and Murtha’s photography that would have enhanced the power of the latter. Still v moving and inspiring, albeit with bleak ponderings about the legacy of Thatcherism and neoliberalism. Some v powerful imagery accompanied by v valuable insights, only real issue, as mentioned, is the filmmaking element

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  Last Night in Soho 2021

  Watched 01 Nov 2023

  Thought the first half was rather enjoyable, an endearing evocation of the 1960s intertwined with the loneliness of student life, that eventually builds up to... nothing. Wright devotes so much to aesthetic world-building in the 1960s segments that the film crumbles under the foundation-less plotting as it heads into the latter half, which descends into a schlocky evocation of B-movie horrors. Consequently, this leads to an exploitative stylistic form that devalues and manipulates female suffering and trauma for style and…

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  War of the Worlds 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Dec 2021 1

  Jesus Christ, Steven