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Alien: Romulus 2024
Finally someone stepped up to topple the Newborn from its shittiest creature design perch
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A Better Tomorrow 1986
I am a sucker for the 'bad guys with a code of honour whose era has passed' trope and the inevitability of where that usually leads, but I was still surprised by how desperately sad this felt (the crazy, balls-out action scenes that would come to define John Woo's oeuvre aren't as formed and present here, allowing the drama and emotion space to really percolate). I don't think I've ever seen a movie set up a leading duo as the…
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970
Ostensibly a movie about America's refusal to confront itself, whether in the form of the 'ape civilisation' created in its image, or the last vestiges of 'humanity' hiding underground and quite literally worshipping an atomic bomb. A subtle movie it isn't but strident, searing in its own way.
In Godzilla, nuclear war brings about an aberration of nature/its revenge: a monstrous act creating a monster. The American interpretation of the monstrosity brought by nuclear war is instead the uprising and…
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