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The People's Joker 2022
52-Week Movie Challenge, week 11: Great villain.
What's gonna happen when you spent centuries queer coding villains?! You get The People's Joker baby, a defiant reclaimation of comic books, sketch comedy, and embodying the opposition.
It plays less like a movie and more like a gonzo, multimedia, one-woman show in the basement of a theatre at a Fringe festival; I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. Vera's trans awakening, as interpreted through the lens of hopeless DC geekdom,โฆ
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979
52-Week Movie Challenge, week 10: cozy movie.
Few things are as comforting for me as Star Trek, and this is a fitting pick for a "cozy movie"; the crew is wearing pajamas, the seats are plushy office chairs, and all the walls of the Enterprise are covered in lush carpeting! Has the Enterprise ever seemed so lavish?
If I recall correctly, this script was originally meant to be the pilot of a rebooted Star Trek series. It was then retroactivelyโฆ
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Humane 2024
Another entry in the "Let the rich eat each other" cinematic universe. This one feels a bit heavy-handed and cluttered: a lot of the beats are recycled from movies like Knives Out and Bodies Bodies Bodies, and the sheer amount of social issues it attempts to satire sags things down. Ultimately, however, I think it pulls it off by committing to the cynicism a the heart of the script, especially towards the end.
Jay Baruchel and Enrico Colantoni are soโฆ
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Strange Darling 2023
Gender norms, kink, consent and weaponized victimhood are JT Mollner's playground in this twisty-turny thriller, the uncomfortable edges of each providing the overall shape of a pulse-pounding descent into mayhem. Is his male voice the best to be playing with some of these concepts? I'm not entirely sure, and some of the character moments feel a bit questionable as such.
That ambiguity is where Strange Darling thrives, however, as layers are peeled off of everyone's presumed innocence and a gameโฆ
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