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Bottle Rocket 1996
So easy. Dignan punches Anthony in the face and runs away. Dignan shows up in the next scene and they're friends again. And of course, to cement their reconciliation they have to do the robbery. So easy. There's a character called Future Man. Too easy?
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Wildcat 2023
Q&A with Ethan and Maya Hawke. They were very cool 👍🏽
Has some rough edges and falters a bit when it tries to adapt O'Connor's short stories. I've only read a handful and I still remember them vividly several years later, this ain't that. Still a success for me since it engages with questions I ask myself daily ("God's in the room with me right now?", "How can I translate something that I don't understand?", "I have to keep living,…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995
In a media landscape overflowing with platitudes in lieu of catharsis, Eva remains incredibly fresh 30 years after the fact. By treating the question of how to live as an equation, Anno’s optimism is hard-won, earned only through a torturous exhaustion of every other possible answer. 1+1=2. You’re alive. Congratulations.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
An epic in size only. Formally, trying to get pleasure from a Denis Villeneuve film is still like trying to get blood from a stone. Is this beauty? I fear sounding like a broken record, but luckily I don’t have to since Dune: Part Two would still piss me off even if I were a fan of the director’s fussy, mannered aesthetic. An epic in size only. The word “scope” should not be used. The film has about ten characters.…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
I haven’t seen this movie but I just spent the same duration of the runtime writing this wicked joke:
It’s the year 2099, and a man is trying to get from Fort Lauderdale to Nashville (Fort Lauderdale is still above water due to various technological developments in the realm of climate change spurred by the assassination of Supreme Court Justice Greta Thunberg). He opts to travel using a technology called a Transportation Interface Nodes or TINs for short. It’s a…
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Twin Peaks 1989
Only upon rewatching the pilot am I now realizing the full extent of the impact this had on my conception of what film/television/art should be and do. Every person is full of beauty and danger. Every person contains an entire universe.
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Blade Runner 1982
When translating noir to the realm of the future, Scott loses my favorite aspect of the genre: the fact that the shadows mean something. I’ve never seen so many amazing production choices undercut by lackluster directorial ones. Scott’s camera feels allergic to curiosity, charm, horror, and tragedy. Allergic to play and dynamics. There’s no poetry and the scenes don’t work. For as pretty as these pictures are, I don’t see any reason for them to be moving.