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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
I liked its message of the over reliance on technology as an essentially dehumanizing mode of being, which here is enacted in the realm of garden design and maintenance (close to my heart).
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Poor Things 2023
A wonderful, hilarious and brutal surrealist take on the themes and tropes present in Romantic/Victorian literature—an examination of human nature in the age of a burgeoning medical experimentation. Very Frankenstein, of course, but also those sorts of stories in which an innocent young person experiences the hedonism and nihilism available to them in the world as they go on these fantastical journeys filled with a myriad of interesting characters. Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo (aka my best friend) were so much fun to watch, and the soundtrack really punctuated the film. I really enjoyed this twisted odyssey.
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Poet Laureate 2023
A tale as old as time: one man’s desire for fame and glory crushed by the institutional powers that be and their capitalistic greed (in this case, the denial of the title of Castlegar’s poet laureate on account of “lack of space in the annual budget”). I laughed, I cried, I pledged a vow of silence until Tristan’s good name is restored and this injustice be righted, when Castlegar awards him with this much-deserved title.
We live in a sinful,…
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