If I enjoy a movie, I’ll give it a like.
If a movie is something special, I’ll give it five stars.
That’s the extent of my rating system.
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Firestarter 2022
Hands down, the coolest think about Firestarter the book and the ‘84 film is how it’s main character, Charlie, claims her agency from all the men trying to take it from her. It’s fabulous.
2022 Firestarter, “but what if she didn’t?”
Also, I get that adaptation can and should change the source material, but making John Rainbird, a stand in for a paedophilic predator, a sympathetic hero of sorts is a fucking choice to say the least.
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Santo vs. Doctor Death 1973
Every moment Santo is on screen is absolute gold. He simply isn’t in the movie enough.
I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me.
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Incoherence 1994
This short has everything: basements, the class divide, men laying on the floor on their sides, verticality, a Loony Tunes comedic sensibility, self-satisfied rich guys lecturing, proletariat sympathies…
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The Matter of Life 2022
The Matter of Life thinks you are an idiot. The new documentary from director Tracy Robinson doesn’t think you have the mental capacity for complex ideas. Why else would Robinson’s film take a complex moral and legal question like a woman’s right to safe abortion services and sand off all the nuance until a simplistic and trite nugget of moralizing remains:
Premise 1: It is wrong to intentionally take an innocent life.
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