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The Double 2013
Richard Ayoade’s The Double is an eerie, darkly comic fever dream, a Kafkaesque nightmare bathed in the flickering glow of bureaucratic hell. Adapted loosely from Dostoevsky’s novella, the film follows Jesse Eisenberg in a dual performance as Simon James, a meek, overlooked office worker, and his doppelgänger, James Simon—confident, charismatic, and everything Simon is not. The result is a psychological duel that is as unsettling as it is strangely funny, unfolding in a world that feels trapped somewhere between Brazil…
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WHAT DID JACK DO? 2017
David Lynch has always had a knack for crafting the uncanny, and What Did Jack Do? is a perfect example of his ability to turn the absurd into something strangely compelling.
The film’s dialogue leans heavily on clichés, particularly those drawn from classic hardboiled crime fiction, old Hollywood gangster films, and 1940s-50s detective stories. Instead of these lines delivering hard-hitting drama, they become eerie, awkward, or strangely comedic when spoken by a tiny, superimposed monkey face. The result is a film that feels like both a tribute and a satire of classic noir, with dialogue that is at once hypnotic, nonsensical, and unmistakably Lynchian.
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Spaceman 2024
Adam Sandler spends 6 months traveling to space to explore a new particle cloud that’s entered our solar system and it ends up being cosmic mushrooms that help him connect to the people he’s been disconnected from back on earth. Who knew mushrooms could unlock the mysteries of the universe and teach us that human connection is why we’re here.
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