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Snooze Quest 2025
New Vewn and new ENA, we are in a golden age of internet animation. Their style has literally only gotten better and has resisted stagnation I think it would otherwise have. To death with 'webcore' and 'weirdcore', this is pure information age gold.
Moral of The Movie: You need 8 hours of sleep to have a productive day.
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Tomorrow Calling 1993
Gibson is New Wave Sci-Fi incarnate. He has dedicated a great deal of his career to dismantling tropes and grounding his fiction in a paradoxical fact. It's like reverse gonzo. Tomorrow Calling, or the og short story The Gernsback Continuum is about exorcising the ghosts of post-war optimism and replacing them with the harsh realities ushered in by the crises of the 70s and 80s. This is a direct, sweet little adaptation that slightly changes the meaning with a British context vs the original American one. It still works.
Moral of The Movie: Exorcise your semiotic ghosts.
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The Substance 2024
A masterclass in committing to the bit. 100% confident filmmaking, keeps pushing and goes beyond any sort of restraint. Barbie crossed with a jacked up Cronenberg and some of the silliest dialogue.
Moral of The Movie: - Do you have anything you want to say to women?
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The Mark of Cain 2001
A movie about the post-Soviet world and the philosophy of tattoos. If either of these are something you're interested in, this movie will be great. There are some truly broken people in this documentary, people barely hanging on to humanity. It's interesting that most inmates are simply proud of remaining themselves throughout the whole ordeal. It is all profoundly and crushingly bleak in that beautiful Russian tradition. The fall of the USSR plunges all of Russia and it's satellites into…
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