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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Mar 2025

  Sat here stewing in the aftermath of my rewatch after Lynch's passing, I keep thinking about the parallel of the two most striking images of the season/series, the Penderecki-assisted explosion of the Trinity nuclear test in Part 8, and the Palmer house sitting atop the hill illuminating the blackness of Twin Peaks itself at the end of Part 18. I don't know that these two images were ever intended to be outright directly compared, but it makes sense, on the…

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  Infinity Pool 2023

  Added

  I can safely say on first blush
  that Brandon Cronenberg is a sick fuck just like his dad, and God bless. Much to unearth here but I wanna focus first on the TCSM energy radiating from this, partially in Mia Goth's tremendously manic performance as leader of a joyriding part-time cult of rich freaks who commit heinous crimes at their own leisure, creating a likewise sort of family unit running off the adrenaline of their own insanity, but its the…

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  The Northman 2022

  ★★★★ Added

  Somehow, Eggers keeps making me love flicks I'd otherwise surely be left cold by, evoking Shakespeare no less, and Eggers himself seems duty bound to a sort of dialectic and poetic authenticity that could lend to difficult barrier to entry, yet his worlds are so tactile that it resonates. Eggers with a scope beyond one claustrophobic setting is new, but he manages to evade his epic becoming a dull, monotonic roar by crafting a surprisingly quiet film, and a world that dictates its own tragedies

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  Mainstream 2020

  ½ Watched 14 Sep 2021

  Has Gia Coppola ever...

  met a human?

  Let alone so much as opened YouTube's front page. As false as Palo Alto already rang, it's low ambitions made it easier to stomach its uncanny contours of teen-to-young-adult anxieties and attitudes, it was off but it was always watchable and seemed like an amateur effort with room to grow, but add in this horrendously inept effort at influencer satire and modernized celebrity culture and it really sets in how Gia seems utterly…

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