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Mouse 1997
What is it about skate videos?
Is it the simple passion of making a video with your friends, of play and collaboration? Is it the structure: three to four minute vignettes showcasing each individual's talents and tricks, single moments of free spirits captured in time? Or is it the sound of the wheels crackling against concrete, the sling of the board's trucks grinding rails, the dead-leaded thump of shoes smacking a deck back to earth. Could it be the way…
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MaXXXine 2024
This Ain’t THE PLAYER…
Ingredients to make 1 cup of MAXXXINE:1/3 cup of SCREAM 3 Hollywood who-dun-it meta-slasher
1/3 cup DePalma pervy horny porny Hitchcock-thriller giallo tension-o-matic
1/3 cup lazy weaksauce, the non-congealing kind
What has held this tetralogy together, and what should be obvious to anyone with eyes, is that Mia Goth is a fucking movie star. Three (actually four) stellar performances back to back to back, serving as the series’ producer, and co-writing the franchises’ previous entry…Translated from by
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Don't Worry Darling 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
FloPugh getting eaten out on the dinner table? Nick Kroll? Olivia Wilde saying "if you die in the game you die in real life."? NEET Harry Styles with the dual monitor setup, vertical screen on 8chan's anime board, horizontal screen playing the Cumtown podcast?? Featuring Chris Pine as daddy?
Too self-righteously "smart" to be enjoyed as dumb fun, too dumb to be believed as a film with anything worth saying. These newfangled "social critique" flicks (Get Out clones) work only with the sense that the person behind the camera doesn't totally loathe it's audience... but Don't Worry Dumbass, this flick hates you.
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Dodes'ka-den 1970
I wept for a solid 15 after this ended.
Kurosawa's first film in five years, after parting ways with his muse (Mifune) and his acting troupe. The story concerns the denizens of a shantytown in a garbage dump; the shacks that they live in are built with rubbish, sheetmetal, and primary colors. It is as if Kurosawa is picking up the pieces of his own life and reassembling them. While he retreads certain well-worn themes (the disparate nature of poverty,…Translated from by
