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  The Wrath of Becky 2023

  ★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  Directed: Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote 
  Release: March 2023 
  Genre: American Thriller 
  Featuring: Lulu Wilson (c. 2005) and Sean William Scott (c. 1976) 
  Overall Rating: 2.87 out of 5 stars

  This film is a Tarantino-laced opiate for those thirsting of external retribution for their socio-political bloodlusts. Cinema has been one artistic medium among others that allows for complicated human desires and passions to be realized and explored - passions like jealousy and hatred. 

  Old school characters of the feminist cinema…

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  Pearl 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  I think upon closer inspection it is really worth asking why the genre of this film falls categorically under horror. The usual conventions of the horror genre are lacking here: somber lighting, anxiety-inducing camera work and foreboding, malevolent acts committed by monsters - at night. 

  In fact, almost none of these ‘conventional’ elements of the horror genre are present in the film. Director Ti West admits that the film was intended to have even a Disney-esque sort of feel with…

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  12 Angry Men 1957

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Oct 2024

  A 90-minute, single-room shot that is perhaps one of the best explorations into epistemology (ie. the theory of knowledge) that I can think of in the film world. I would use this film in the classroom of all philosophy students, all debate students, all law students, all grammar students and [of course] all film students. 

  It’s my opinion that the film’s true glory is not just the protagonist’s (Henry Fonda) being a champion of doubt. The film doesn’t so much…

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  Terrifier 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Oct 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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