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“Jesus Christ...they’ve done it…they’ve done it!”
A child prods her dying mother, urging her to get up. This is no expression of love, however, but rather a guttural urge for the fading woman to get up and “work, work, work” to produce the crops so necessary for basic survival. As the mother passes away, the child takes a few objects from her bedside but leaves behind what was her father’s beloved book on birds, one which the mother, Ruth, so…
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Barbenheimer: Part 1
”Stop playing the martyr.”
On leaving Oppenheimer I immediately wanted to watch it again.
Much like actual history, Nolan’s film is a concoction of influences, taking in the iconography of the western, the conventional biopic, and perhaps even horror and crime films. It is a layered behemoth that manages to hit a host of emotions and beats and emerges almost like a series of chain reactions, with different tones and elements colliding with each other much as…
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What would happen if a woman’s quest for the tastiest sauce went too far?
Unhinged and weird guy cinema is delightful - especially with Robert Pattinson - but I cannot shake the sense of multiple (heh) parts competing for space in Mickey 17, which has much on its mind. Existentialism, space capitalism, existentialism, memory - all are in there, cumulating to produce a fun if wandering film that ends past its time as it shifts gears into something approaching Arrival…
“Why can’t you just be a person like other people?”
“Calling Sister Midnight…”
Sister Midnight keeps you on your toes through its tonal shifts, never quite settling for too long, much like our newlywed protagonist on her various train journeys. Cycling through domestic drama, coming-of-age angst, black comedy, and even horror, there’s plenty to like and plenty to chuckle at. Unwilling to settle for being another quirky coming-of-age story, however, there is also a wild influx of stop-motion animation, musical…
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Barbenheimer: Part 2
The postmodern LEGO Moviefication of Barbie.
Who knew a film partially about alt-right manosphere Ken could also feature Rob Brydon, The Godfather, and Colin Firth?
Barbie is at its heart a really touching film about living authentically…as well as one with enough self awareness to use its brand trappings effectively, digging through an archive of forgotten Barbies while also sending up the Barbie premise in 2023. Our screening had a laugh a minute - mainly from us…
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“You have to wear your hobby in the living room?”
Surely the best-written film for Downey Jr. thus far and possibly the best Iron-Man of the three? Why is this considered one of the ‘worst’ MCU films? What am I not seeing?
Iron-Man 3 is a superhero film that dares to ask questions about the commodification of heroism and of the function of the superhero film in the ‘War on Terror’ age. Even without that, Killian as a villain is…
