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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Sad to see such torn writing, the eternal pressure of big productions leading a room of authors to be obliterated into chimes of predictable tropes. Flimsy and RINSED Trump + Brigitte Macron message, the unbearable shonen tone of Robert Pattinson, the weird Challengers infection in the script and to finish it all off, a very lukewarm imagery that refuses to explore any sort of plastic possibilities beyond what serves the commercial rhythm.

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  Phase IV 1974

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Nice movie to watch before going to school, going into a workshop, before doing anything with others and their annoying otherness. It’s a crafty and actually a little scary movie. Great to fall asleep to. Beautiful macro shots of ants without it getting too documentary-like. 

  It’s quite fun, and the sounds here are charmingly cheap and loud.

  In there you see ants making geometric sculptures that strike a threatening chord, towers in which they watch humans. Instead of a gigantic threat you see small things gather and use architecture to their advantage.

Popular reviews

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  Watched 21 Aug 2024

  The main take from this movie is that imperfections are what truly takes the audience in. It’s what truly makes things believable. 

  Mixture of digital+physical FX was amazing although this movie really corresponds to this conversation Gaspard and I had about the fact that sagas get really bad when the formula is evident. The formula here is clear and spat in our faces, the writing mechanisms being way too repetitive. 

  However a lot of great ideas in there, the acid…

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Ate a kinder bar halfway thru and it was a mistake because this movie obviously doesn’t taste like chocolate. 

  But lovely watch, digestible and it felt quite encouraging to see someone wake up and first things first it’s the music.

  My grandad gave me a book of all of Dylan’s lyrics right before passing, and there’s something quite mystical with those lyrics like I can’t access them. I love the words but somehow don’t connect it all - there’s some…

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