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Recent reviews

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  To a Land Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Anyone expecting anything on the level of Parasite will be disappointed. I figured this would be more similar to Okja or Snowpiercer and I was correct! It’s Hollywood-Bong at his best. I find his critical analysis of neo-techno-serfdom to be somewhat surface level here. Rpatz delivers. I had fun.

Popular reviews

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 May 2024 1

  “What if I really was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful, someone buried alive and suffocating to death?”

  A fever dream like no other.... while it was difficult for me to relate to a lot of the nostalgia invoked here, that being the quiet horror of suburbia and the specific genre of media (I have hardly watched Twin Peaks, nor Buffy, etc.) I was able to relate to was being a boy who lost and found himself in "girl" shows.…

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Watched this after studying for several hours and a glass of wine on a flight which added to the experience greatly I think. 

  Apart from the technicalities of the film which.. WOW. It is so dream-like almost in the camera movements, I audibly gasped twice just at how things *looked*. This film is so American from the Cowboy narrative, the alienation Travis experiences, his ‘apoliticism’, subsequent radicalization and ill-informed vigilantism. Then he makes something that is Shinzo Abe doohickey adjacent and crashes out with a sick Mohawk