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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022
Been playing Marvel Rivals a lot lately and have found myself in a Marvel mood. I’m in Gold I so far and main Namor in his MCU outfit quite a bit, so found myself gravitating to this film. It’s long, but handles the baggage of Boseman’s loss rather poignantly. As a fan of Namor going back to the comics, I was apprehensive of all the new cultural additions to his lore, but it mostly just feels like cool flavoring to…
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Play Misty for Me 1971
Eastwood’s been the go-to on family movie nights lately and I’m not complaining.
This is simple but still diverting. The location filming really stands out; I’d love to retreat to 70s Carmel-by-the-Sea and attend a jazz festival. Some moments, especially the scenes of Clint cruising to the radio, feel directly invoked by Tarantino for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island 2022
Nice to see Yas in late-style chill mode, throwing on some retro flavored tunes, making space for kid/goat hijinks, and really taking the time to let these gorgeously animated island vistas be explored and soaked in. It’s a pretty enjoyable, if slight experience.
The only problem is this feeling of being slight; the movie coming across almost too quaint to the point of airlessness. Despite being feature length, I don’t feel like I learned any more about Doan or Amuro than…
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Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway 2021
“So tell me. Tell me how to destroy the depths of these mechanisms.”
Shreds on every conceivable level, especially in terms of animation / atmosphere / music, creating something that feels like Gundam by way of Michael Mann. It’s a film that presents a war of ideology bathed in night-sky moral gray, as the banal violence of an increasingly corrupt fascist imperial state comes face to face with the explosive acts of rebellion it ultimately cultivates. Hathaway finding himself a firsthand…
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