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Love, Death & Robots: Pop Squad 2021
Just when I started to think that LDR had run its course, Pop Squad moved from a shaky start into something haunting and compelling. Up there with Zima Blue and Sonnie's Edge for my favourites thus far.
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Love, Death & Robots: Beyond the Aquila Rift 2019
It's going to stick with me for a long time, not least because the woman's CGI model has clearly had more attention poured into escaping the Uncanny Valley than the man.
There's something quite jarring about going from LDR's inspiration, Heavy Metal magazine, which featured an alien cosmonaut being spontaneously mpreg'd right in the first issue, to a woman teasing about great zero-gravity sex only to cut to the most playing-the-hits vanilla straight sex you've ever seen.
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Oldboy 2003
If you've heard of Oldboy without having seen it prior, chances are you've heard of its name accompanied with a hushed, reverent whisper about 'the hallway scene'. Maybe you've heard a little more, that it had a dedicated set and took 45 days to film the perfect take, a ridiculous amount of man-hours to film slightly less than three minutes for its two hour runtime. You might have seen a close-up of a dishevelled man wearing a tortured smile. Oldboy…
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Cocaine Bear 2023
Do you ever wish that a film was made on one tenth of its budget, because then it might have committed to a single direction rather than floundering around in six? There's a lot going on - camp, slasher, comedy, and demanding you take it seriously in spurts that it disavows within minutes.
Some of the individual strands are competent in themselves, and some of the actors know what they're working with - Martendale in particular is a treasure -…
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