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  Companion 2025

  Watched 26 Feb 2025

  Companion 
  Drew Hancock | 2025
  What Makes Us Human
  “It’s how you are programmed.”

  What is something that all heterosexual men desire in a partner? Is it sophistication, a sweet and floral perfume, or simply rich endowments? The answer the film Companion offers is that it is a pretty face and the disposition to do anything to please and show affection without question. In other words, they want a programmable and customizable robot whose features, notably their intelligence, they can…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 13 Feb 2025

  The Brutalist
  Brady Corbet | 2024

  The Rich Eat The Artists
  “This place! This place is rotted!”

  The beauty of Brady Corbet’s opus, The Brutalist, is in it’s own interwoven intricacies like a medieval tapestry where every thread of dialogue and image remains a unifying piece of the whole. The feat of achieving such unity in an epic film we have not seen since Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Corbet’s film never seems to put any one thing to…

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  Anora 2024

  Rewatched 23 Jan 2025 1

  I don’t think I can recover from this.

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  Anora 2024

  Watched 13 Dec 2024

  Anora 
  Sean Baker 2024 United States 
  The Girl Who Dared To Love
  “We are gonna be together…forever!”

  I don’t think I will ever forget what it felt like to see the final image. Anora illustrates the choice to be unconditional in your love for someone and the pain that comes with humanity’s intervention. Baker weaves a thematic beauty through the inner lives of the characters that find their love story threatens the power of an oligarch. In some ways it…