Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Mind's Eye 1990

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Sep 2024

  chrome metal dinosaurs roam the barren land under yellow mustard clouds while the idiot humans keep building their glass cities in the neon ocean

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  Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 1972

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Sep 2024

  This led me to discover Meiko Kaji’s music which it turns out is pretty fantastic

Popular reviews

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  The Trial 1975

  ★★★ Watched 09 Sep 2024

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  … hammer time!

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  Violent Cop 1989

  ★★★ Watched 08 Sep 2024

  I don’t know how to feel about this one… at the start I was catching a kind of relaxed goofy vibe, with Kitano literally putting the ‘slap’ in ‘slapstick’… then a guy gets his head bashed in front of small children to the sounds of smooth jazz… okay pretty brutal but still goofy … then we get a gang rape and everyone’s forcing each other to do heroin… what a dark turn … and that’s saying nothing of the ending.

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