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Longlegs 2024
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a slowburn effort that makes the frightening parts pop out more. a sequence of events that contorts reality with diabolism and leaves you speechless. a film that feels incredibly isolating to its core. a film that, while not trying to strike the exact same tone as his most recent film, the monkey, still makes you laugh in bewilderment at times. that osgood perkins must be stirring up an intricate formula and i'm here for it.
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Halloween 1978
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whilst it's clear halloween is seen as the gold standard of carpenter's work and obviously grew a life of its own beyond to become one of horror's all time successful franchises, there is something quaint about this which drives a lot of those early americanised slashers. this one takes the psychosexual elements that were within them and which drove a lot of the giallo scene that left its mark on the americanised ones and coupled it with a lot of…
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Poor Things 2023
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one of those times where i had to do away with my misgivings as the film gave me more reasons to trust how it handles its subject matter. afterwards, it was marvellous to be along on its emotional rollercoaster. ownership of one’s self, morality, abuse, idealism, sex work, scientific ethics and how jarringly funny it can be to throw a simple sweararific sentence into this language that yorgos lanthimos has divvied up to his characters are explored into this near…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
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not a greatest hits of ghibli per se, but a pulling from many of the defining aspects of ghibli in its homespun slice of life parts (is that the farm from only yesterday i see before me?), silent low fantasy (makes you believe the heron might be a ghostly apparition like in when marnie was there), its whimsical fantasy (spirited away’s dna spread broadly over it) and the preoccupation with the gravity of war (the stark orange watercolour look of…
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