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  Golden Dawn Girls 2018

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Conflicted feelings about this one. This is a documentary about the Greek neo-nazi Golden Dawn movement which rose to become the country's third biggest party in 2015. Watching this Norwegian filmmaker infiltrate party meetings and attempting not to step on any toes there gave me more anxiety than any other film I've seen recently, but it is good to keep in mind while watching that Golden Dawn is no more: after committing one act of terror too many they were…

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  The Wages of Fear 1953

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I can't remember being this nerve-wracked (I actually had to lie down for some minutes after finishing it) by a movie that still felt like a totally rewarding cinematic experience by the end. This is the kind of film that Gravity and similar disaster/occupational hazard films wish they were but never could be: no heavy-handed sentimental tricks to cheapen the experience, just the haunting uncaring randomness of life without embellishments. One of the most suspenseful thrillers out there but, needless to say, very dark and sardonic and definitely something you need to be in the right mood for.

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  El Topo 1970

  ½ Added

  A frothing-at-the-mouth misogynist tract, and an exercise in autofellatio by a delusional, reprehensible narcissist for the price of one. Human and animal welfare were clearly deemed of secondary importance during the production, in favour of Jodorowsky's extremely creative and provocative artistic vision of himself as Jesus and of women as ungrateful, unreliable creatures who only deserve to be sexually assaulted. Even if the stories of the writer/director/star raping an actress and murdering a hundred rabbits on set turn out to be untrue, I will still think of this as the most hateful and repulsive pile of film to ever be mistaken for high art.

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  Starship Troopers 1997

  ½ Watched 25 Mar 2024

  Unforgivably non-committal with its messaging; except for a few scattered moments the supposed satire of fascist propaganda is almost indistinguishable from the real thing, with nary a commentary about the futility of the copious amounts of blood being shed, or the futility of values like duty and self-sacrifice in service of a totalitarian government that doesn't care about you. There is so little in the way of social commentary in fact that I don't trust the filmmakers to not have…

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