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X 2022
Maybe this didn’t land quite so well because I watched Pearl first and not only does that pull the rug out of any surprises as to who the actual villains are but the genuinely unconventional design and colouring of Pearl leaves X feeling like a much more run of the mill period piece.
I have lost count of how many films by male directors I’ve watched that think that a woman over 60 being bad/selfish/dangerous is a huge twist. And…
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Pearl 2022
A towering performance by Mia Goth in this brilliantly directed film.
The mixed messages and cognitive dissonance that the MGM 1950s colouring and gorgeous full on Wizard of Oz design creates once you get into the Hitchcock-meets-Shirley Jackson-meets-slasher movie content of this film is remarkable.
Wonderful
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Dirty Filthy Love 2004
Is this the most relatable, unbearable, touching human story ever to make it onto film? Maybe.
Shot before Michael Sheen was the name he is now - in the end it’s still impossible to believe this wasn’t written for him. As a young actor he specialised in a particular type of furious commitment to any part with chaos at the heart of it. This is the flip side of that. The chaos is happening to him. This was the film…Translated from by -
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
I know people get really fired up about Star Wars but I was so willing to be swept and expectations after Rian Johnson’s efforts were high. So my objections to this one are really simple 1. It sidelines John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran’s characters in unforgivable ways to focus on the redemption arc of a tall, pale neo-nazi f*^kboi stalker. It’s just male, stale and pale Hollywood asserting its misguided notion that the abusive-but-interestingly-irredeemable White guy who is forever…
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