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Paris, Texas 1984

★★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2024

I finally took the Paris, Texas pill.
A film full of beautiful shots you could hang on the wall, full of sound-bites you could sample. There’s so much substance here; and that’s before you even begin to talk about the story, the acting (how impressive is Hunter?), the scene where they mirror each other walking down the street, or the parking lot finale.
Paris, Texas is the result of when everything comes together through the consideration of care. It’s lonely,…
As Good as It Gets 1997

★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2024

Delving into Melvin.
I’ve yet to see a bad Jack Nicholson performance—Melvin is no different. One of the more intriguing characters I’ve seen in film; bigoted in every meaning of the word, and a real bastard—the OCD (and possible autism?) masks a lot of these learnt behaviours; the insecurity that Melvin has, the bitterness towards those he meets, meaning he is constantly on edge, ready to attack.
Melvin and Carol’s relationship is fine up until it isn’t—remaining platonic would have…

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All My Friends Hate Me 2021

★★★½ Watched 13 Dec 2024

Get Out: The Riot Club Edition.
I didn’t expect much going into this and it has left me pleasantly surprised. One of the more uncomfortable watches I’ve had, because in a sense, it felt so real.
All My Friends Hate Me declares itself somewhere between a horror and a comedy, but it’s actually a pretty good social observation mixed in with a quirky character study. It feels authentic, partly down to the performances by Tom Stourton and his group of…
Nimona 2023

★★½ Watched 13 Dec 2024

Nimo-nah.
A cool concept backed by a nice animation style, but I just couldn’t click with this film. It starts off quite awkwardly and the pacing threw me off—then Nimona arrives, and it quickly goes downhill.
The protagonists are anti-heroes, so I get they need to be flawed, but Nimona just annoyed the hell out of me. I felt Riz Ahmed’s Ballister would have been fine on his own (though I understand this is a wholesale change to practically everything…

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Borderlands 2024

★ Watched 11 Dec 2024

Bring me a bucket and I’ll show you a bucket.
Bring me an awful film adaptation of one of my most beloved franchises and I’ll likely go and cry in the corner for an hour. It’s ugly, humourless and void of any soul.
There’s so many things you could have done with Borderlands which would have been better than this. Just give me 2 hours of Claptrap saying “hello travellers” and I’d have had a funner time. But this…
This ain’t it, chief.
Mitch’s December Challenge - Day 11
Chinatown 1974

★★★★½ Watched 11 Dec 2024

First things first; fuck Roman Polanski.
Seperate the art from the artist and given to you is a sublime, intoxicating Neo-Noir thriller. It’s simply stunning—cinematography, score, screenplay, acting, direction; all of them are ticked off in just over 2 hours which really feels like 20 minutes.
There’s nothing else to say really. It’s an all time great. It’s easy to see why it’s an all time great. The issue I have with the film itself (beyond Polanski—fuck him) is that…

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