MisterStrakin

MisterStrakin

“When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk”.

Favorite films

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Airplane!
  • Back to the Future

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  • Ted 2

    ★★

  • Better Man

    ★★★½

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    ★★★

  • My Bloody Valentine

    ★★

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  • Better Man

    Better Man

    ★★★½

    The disappointingly trite dialogue is less distracting upon rewatch, which allows for a better appreciation of the film’s lavish set pieces. The Rock DJ sequence is worth the price of admission alone, even if it does suffer from that inauthentic digital sheen.

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    ★★★

    The Hobbit is exceptionally good at emulating the tone and production design of its seminal predecessors, but lacks the considered pacing and emotional poignancy of them.

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★

    For all its talk of cellular division, the film manages to completely merge the cinema into a collective consciousness. Wonderfully sardonic and sinewy, it ultimately becomes a parade of utter grotesquerie - and parades are attended for their spectacle, not their subtlety.

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★½

    Álvarez authentically captures the analogue tactility of the franchise. Watch as cardboard characters are forced through a moderately creative gauntlet of ghouls and gore.

    Am I talking about Alien: Romulus or Evil Dead 2013? 

    I’ll never tell.

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