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Predestination (Spierig Brothers, 2014)


Daybreakers is a guilty pleasure of mine, and I finally got around to seeing the more recent offering from the Spierig brothers. While it's a really fun thought exercise in time paradoxes, the 40 minute exposition laying out the contrived circumstances required to execute it really breaks the immersion and ruins the pacing. Everything is so telegraphed. Sarah Snook's magnetic performance kind of goes to waste, but the second half manages to salvage the entertainment aspect. I think there's a lot of unexplored thematic potential here that was never tapped into, thus it's a parlor trick instead of anything more meaningful.

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Letterboxd | ReverseShot | SlantMagazine

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"I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me" (Frank Costello)

Same here.
Ordet is definitely my favorite of the two - what a deep, brooding masterpiece. Need to see Vampyr and Gertrud next.

Smiles of a Summer Night -

This Bergman guy makes some pretty funny movies.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

I couldn't agree more.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Philip Kaufman)


Flawed but hellishly entertaining. Never tire of this one.
The Scream Factory bluray is awesome.

Nocturnal Animals (Ford, 2016)


Tom Ford crafts an elaborate narrative in the meta to ponder how provocation encourages self-discovery, how we respond to art, and the symbiotic connection between cruelty and weakness. Michael Sicinski of ReverseShot aptly describes Ford's nightmare scenario as "paranoid fantasy straight out of Deliverance" linking it to out-of-touch classism, but Ford preemptively responds (admits defeat) with the role of the mother inadequately defending her bigotry. Ford can recruit the best actors on the planet, but he can't gel his superficial skill with his intellectual aspirations. Window dressing meticulously constructed is still just window dressing, and there's a pane of glass between me and everything I was supposed to care about in this picture.

From the director of Nekromantik comes the story of a murderous psycho who looks back at his life as he lay dying. What he sees and what we see ain't pretty. It's only 65 minutes long and there's no fun in watching it. It is disturbing and disgusting, and in that way it is very effective. Certainly not for everybody.

Elle (2016)

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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. — Albus Dumbledore

⋆⋆⋆1/2 OUT OF ⋆⋆⋆⋆

This is seriously one of the most underrated gems out there.

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Recent Views (out of 4)
Eighth Grade- (3.5/4)
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Mandy- (3.5/4)

Riff-Raff - 8/10

Oh how I wish Huppert would have won the Oscar. At least she got the cesar and golden globe though. Love herrr.

Ladybird, Ladybird - 7/10

I've liked every Ken Loach movie I have seen (about 10) but I didn't like any of the characters in this movie. It started getting redundant towards the end. AND, she had 3 more babies!

Rewatch. One of the better horror movies of the past 10 years 8/10

Withnail & I (1987), dir: Bruce Robinson.

8th re-watch for Live Musical Hall of Fame