Spectacular, darkly funny... and about an hour too long. I really wanted to like this but it felt like there were enough ideas for 3 films here, all jostling for space - a bad adaptation of a good book. Think I'd've preferred a simpler clone ethics story, as much as I loved the shitty croissants. R Patz gives his best though, specially when he's cravin those oxys!
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022
Dogplies don't work on cats! A funny, imaginative and beautifully art directed film. Like if Shrek entered the Spiderverse. The bounty hunter wolf was chilling!
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Nightbitch 2024
Saw an early screening via LFF on tour. Really funny satire on the struggles of motherhood, with some uneasy cringe comedy and body horror moments. The dog transformation is handled slowly and you enjoy spotting the slow changes in Amy Adams behaviour. She is great and so is the 3 year old opposite her!
I sort of felt the film ran out of ideas about 60mins and the resolution came a bit fast and felt slightly schmaltzy compared to the…
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Nosferatu 2024
Spooky, slurpy and a little bit sexy! Hells hooves there were some awesome sequences in this. Loved 1800s Wisburg, the plague ship, the dreams, all the incredible practical effects! Lily-Rose Depp and Simon McBurney going full weird. Willem Dafoe being a gurning SWISS! witch doctor. Lovely stuff.
Something about the story left me feeling a bit short changed though. Is it all just a pale imitation of Dracula? Would a bit more confinement / actual horror have helped? Nosferatu is…
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