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Nope 2022
As a child I was terrified of space, the stars and whatever could lurk up there. Yet if I found myself outside at night I’d look up. I watched videos about aliens, ghosts and bigfoot, unable to look away from things that unsettled me.
Spectacle is the main focus of ‘Nope’, I’m late to the game and have nothing meaningful to add to this long ended conversation about the films thinly-veiled deeper meaning. I just think it is a very…
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John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City 2018
Imagine getting Jon Brion to play you out with an organ cover of Lithium
“God can’t hear you”
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The Electric State 2025
I woke up at half three watched; Carlos Sainz, Fernando Alonso and Oscar Piastri crash, yet that wasn’t the most upsetting thing I saw this morning.
I shit you not this film ends with an emotional orchestral version of Wonderwall as the main character gives a soulless speech about connecting with one another.
This film cost $320 million and I was forgetting what happened scene by scene. How did David Lynch fail to secure funding for any of his projects in his final years, yet we pump the GDP of a small country into stuff like this?
The film industry is in a fucking abysmal state.
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Oppenheimer 2023
“Barbenheimer” was without a doubt the best thing that had happened to Nolan’s career, his marketing team literally just had to release a couple of trailers and pictures of Cillian Murphy’s beautiful blue eyes. But in order to give Nolan his biggest non-Batman opening weekend he needed the film to back up the hype, and he certainly delivered. I have now seen ‘Oppenheimer’ in IMAX twice in three days and I have been blown away twice. The film feels completely…
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