this one really does what it sets out to do. it’s a phenomenal use of the screen life form and a total blast to watch. best enjoyed with one’s attention fractured between the live-stream comments and the film itself. the credits-sequence FakeToks bumped it up a half star for me
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The Rule of Jenny Pen 2024
this is incredibly upsetting. I loved hating every second of it. learn nothing. expect nothing. go in blind and hang on tight
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Immaculate 2024
This film is a gorgeous, topical, pointedly irreverent Renaissance painting. Sydney Sweeney is absolutely in her element here.
It explores the twofold horror of body as vessel: the material horror of pregnancy sans agency and the existential horror of denied subjectivity through projection/idealization.
It’s an amazing allegory for how institutionalized patriarchal violence maintains control over women’s bodies. Obviously it also has lots to say about the church.
It isn’t a perfect film, but I found much of it very moving. The parts that moved me less may well appeal to younger, less jaded viewers, as seemed to be the case at my showing.
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Horror in the High Desert 2021
HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT is a super low-budget mockumentary brimming with genre verisimilitude. Its overt play on hackneyed true-crime documentary tropes works pretty well for me as a found footage devotee.
Much like the true crime docs it emulates, it's definitely commentary-heavy and footage-light, but the skilled cast generally makes it work. The ending felt a bit anticlimactic, but all in all, an enjoyable bit of found footage.
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