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You either die an Andy Milligan or live to become a Ron Howard.

Grindhouse /// Arthouse ; Experimentation /// Exploitation

Melbourne, Australia
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  • Red to Kill

    ★★★★

  • Days Before Christmas

    ★★★

  • The Hook of Woodland Heights

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  • Attack of the Killer Refrigerator

    ★★★

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  • Red to Kill

    Red to Kill 1994

    ★★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2024

    Everything is exploitation; exploitation is Ben Ng's disability worker abusing those in his care, and exploitation is Tang capitalising upon those whose vulnerabilities he seeks to depict. Many indefensible acts committed in midnight blue hues leftover from the HK New Wave, an aesthetic alignment with despair as it filters across former Miss Universe contestant Lily Chung in the lead role as an intellectually disabled young woman. In a crowd of non-verbal men with crooked necks and drooping eyes she has…

  • Days Before Christmas

    Days Before Christmas 1992

    ★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024

    Attains additional resonance for where this sits within Savino's ever-so-slight filmography, his prior work being two shorts vibing within a blissful ignorance towards the SOV hostility that governs them and here with his last completed film - his most professional, a soap opera indoctrination for the seasonally naïve - there's a narrative pivot at the centre point; tear off the gift wrapping and recognise Christmas for what it really is. That family man is an alcoholic and he's downing a…

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  • Rapado

    Rapado 1992

    ★★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2019 4

    There's a suggestion early on in Rapado that a young man, who has just had his bike stolen, is about to have his entire life changed. After all, he used that bike to go everywhere. Except this isn't true. Life isn't going to change at all. Being able to go anywhere and everywhere means nothing when your presence is needless. Why loiter at the arcade when it's expensive and it burns your eyes? Why deal in currency when most of…

  • Barbie

    Barbie 2023

    ★ Watched 23 Jul 2023 6

    Embarrassing corporate Twitter account energy all over this, breaking the fourth wall - often to explain the physical gags as they lack the didactic quality of The Message - with snarky self-critique that doesn't actually wish to change anything but merely point it out as a means of continuing to inhabit it from an ironic distance. Gerwig posits that progress is when women actualise themselves by recreating a consumerist endgame of expensive homes and lucrative jobs, and being that this…

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