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EuroTrip 2004
I watched this high on painkillers in 2004 while recovering from having my wisdom teeth removed.
Revisiting it was weird. I was 17 in 2004 and it took me right back. It reminded me just how damn straight and white everything was back then. White bro humor exemplified.
This is less of a comedy classic and more of a time capsule. It plays like a series of sketches loosely strung together, and I'll admit one or two had me laughing.…
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Nosferatu 2024
Rather a chore to sit through I'm afraid!
****
There's something about these recent hyped "arthouse" films - Saltburn, The Substance, Nosferatu - where I believe these filmmakers have reverse engineered movies that are almost convincingly good - but there's a hollowness and a lack of connection between the form and the narrative in each of them. They all look good, at times they even feel like movies. They are a total drag to watch. There's a constant dissonance, a…
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The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo 2016
Fuck man - after the recent allegations against Brian Jordan Alverez by Jon Ebeling about what happened on the set of Caleb Gallo, this great work is forever tainted. It's obvious that Alverez is aware of his own charm and magnetism - even playing with it in a slightly self-mocking way - but it's hard to look at his fictionalised love triangle with Billy here as anything but a rewriting of truth, of selfish wish-fulfilment and manipulation by a rising star.
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The Big Lez Show: Choomah Island 3 2019
The tonal shift in the Big Lez story happened in Choomah Island 2: after creator Jarrad Wright had a significant psychadelic experience in his personal life. While the show was set on a course of violence, bro-humor, drugs and revenge as usual - Choomah Island 2 set in motion an arc of reflection and redemption for Big Lez (and I suspect, Jarrad himself) that would be fully realised in this finale.
Between the usual shenanigans, there are genuine moments here.…
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