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Tea and Sympathy 1956
A work of immense sensitivity and empathy. Its expressely queer themes are muddled into the realm of subtext through Hayes code dogma, but that limitation breeds wildly inventive fruit, it explores such a rich and delicate tapestry of emotions and finds a multitude of layers of meaning in its coy dance around its root subject.
What i kept thinking about on the way home was how accurately this movie portrays the mundane behaviors and assumptions that enforce and perpetuate oppression.…
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Mickey 17 2025
Great cast, great energy, great critters, the script was most of my problems with this thing, not so much the very heavy handed political allegory, i actually think that played well, more the immense chunk of the run-time dedicated to these huge, sprawling montages, i assume an attempt to pack in everything from the book. At times it felt like i was watching one of those horrible “explained!” videos on youtube, just a parade of hand waved plot beats and…
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Longlegs 2024
When people brought up comparisons to Silence of the Lambs and Cure i guess i just didn’t expect this movie to be those two movies mushed together like two action figures in a child’s hands.
Oz Perkins is a fine director. He has a knack for colour and blocking that always feels distinct and visually interesting.
He is also maybe the most incompetent screenwriter working at his level. All the dialogue is insufferable, it’s weightless and flat when it isn’t…
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Nosferatu 2024
Agressively and frustratingly sexless. For a film whose two main semiotic queues are a Herzog and a Coppola, it just will not at any point allow itself to be sexy or fucked up, let alone both. The scenes with Orlok and Ellen are almost impressive in their innertness. There’s no tension, sexual or otherwise. There is sex in the movie itself, quite a bit of it! But it has no energy to it, no verve. It shows up because the…
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