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Night Shift 2020

★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025

Watchlist #15
Derangement hits France. It ends up making the points I don’t think Fontaine intends to make at all. Fontaine elegantly mounts the moral displacement of compassion for a political refugee on the part of adulterous cop lovers over that for their unborn child.
Vigilante 1982

★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2024

#Halloween2024WatchList #17
I’ve noticed something about how Lustig frames shower scenes in his movies.

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Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire 2023

★★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2023 39

Rebels of the World Unite (and Take Over)
Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Part 1: A Child of Fire
“I’m ready to leave this life behind,” says Kai (Charlie Hunnam) to Kora (Sofia Boutella). A woman with a mysterious past, Kora employs him as a space pilot for a dangerous but righteous mission against the brutal soldiers of the rapacious Mother World in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Part 1: A Child of Fire. Although the line denotes that Kai…
The Fabelmans 2022

★★ Watched 13 Nov 2022 5

The final shot of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans stands as the worst image of his career. With it, for the first time, the accusations stick that his films are manipulative and sentimental. The final shot features Spielberg stand-in Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) amblin’ off away from the camera on a studio backlot after a lesson in composition from John Ford (played condescendingly by David Lynch) about the importance of an off-center horizon-line in Western frontier paintings. Janusz Kaminski’s camera jerks…

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With Teofilo Colon and Armond White, Demetry formed Resistance Works, WDC, an independent book publishing collaborative. In 2009, Resistance Works, WDC published White’s Keep Moving: The Michael Jackson Chronicles, on which Demetry acted as Copy Editor. The following year, they published Demetry’s THE COMMUNITY OF DESIRE: SELECTED CRITICAL WRITINGS (2001-2007).…

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