Archive for January 2023
8 posts from 12 to 28 January 2023.
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The quintessential millennial horror film, part of the “nihilist slasher” genre. Incredibly engrossing, naturalistic, and scary.
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Part of the Citizen Kane extended universe. In which a bout of jealousy and murderous rage, William Randolph Hearst shoots a guy in the head, while intending to kill Charlie Chaplin (which himself is about to run to Mexico with the 16 year old girl he just knocked up, since the statutory rape age is lower there).
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This is yet another female version of John Wick, but much less po-faced. There’s more than just smouldering rage, there are attempts at humour and drama. The lead is not Charlize Theron, though.
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A serious, philosophical script about the interplay of science and philosophy, warped by Arnie’s Reality Distortion Field. The big soliloquy on who should play God and decide who lives and dies regarding clones ends with a one-liner “So that you can go fuck yourself”. This might be an improvement.
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This is batshit insane. I think the weirdest part is where a billionaire ran a union shop, the SAG-AFTRA logo is prominent.
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Some kind of mesoamerican Blade Runner, bots hunting bots. It’s mostly self-contained, by way of the tried and true method of amnesiac protagonist that keeps discovering things about herself.
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This film is torn between a competent horror thriller about an abused girl turning inward, escaping into her own inner world; and some over-the-top mind-over-matter transhuman, toying with mere mortals like a cat playing with its food.
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Die Hard on a building. The Rock’s Reality Distortion Field approaches Arnie, he just has too much charisma.