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  • Felidae

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  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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  • The Earrings of Madame de...

    The Earrings of Madame de... 1953

    ★★★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2024 2

    Love burns through everything. Status, furs, jewels… It renews even the most banal possessions into precious gifts. Even if it were to kill you, was love even meant for this cruel world anyhow? Madame de… is no mere treat but a full course meal at just 100 minutes, running you through the transformation of a cold and secure noblewoman in great debt to a passionate and and maligned lady unsure how in her privilege to process this great phenomenon of heat…

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu 2024

    ★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2024

    This may be the first instance of Eggers not totally wowing me. For such a pronounced auteur with such few but incendiary and confident hits under his belt, Nosferatu comes off as a bit too safe and well-behaved for it to give me a lasting impression. For sure, it’s got that deeply archaic, animalistic edge to it that his other works possess, such as slowly mounting dread and abject terror in place of cheap mainstream scares (of which there are a couple…

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  • Felidae

    Felidae 1994

    ★★★★ Rewatched 08 Jan 2025

    “He lost his innocence… just like the humans.”

    In which the animation world at last marries ultraviolence and the fatalistic—like a torrid affair between Bluth and Argento. I once discovered Felidae many years back in high school, as an oddity to be mocked at in that infantilized, sacred animation attitude, despite my enduring curiosity about it for years to come. Now it finally arrives on a properly restored US release, and with my watching it in its original German language version for…

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2025

    Gromit’s career of saving Wallace’s behind from his own insane contraptions is truly a thankless task. If this movie was not as fun, heartfelt, and charming as it is, he ought to move out and become his own dog, but alas, all’s well ends well. They were meant to bring chaos into their little lives for our viewing pleasure, even in what is conceptually a tacky sequel idea. Thankfully it is, for the most part, as witty and charming as Wallace and Gromit have ever been. And Feathers McGraw is still the creepiest little shit I ever did lay eyes on.

    Aardman | January 2025

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