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A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) – SERGIO LEONE
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Young good-old badass Clint flames an otherwise rectangular block of goofy disbelief into a vibrant flick bringing everyone in sync except for their mouths.
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Dark Matter – Berlin Exhibition
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Paradoxically overcrowded while overpriced or particle-lly because of it…still manages to impress with bassy-bouncing, lumen-laden, solid-as-cold-lead atmospheric spaces.
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Silver Linings (2012) – David O. Russell
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Romantic comedy that does not punish with shame the morning after. Featuring candid performances that abstract away complicated emotions everybody knows but fail to articulate.
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21 Grams (2003) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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21 years ago, a shaky trip to interpersonal traumata. A sour truck-load of acting vehicles working their solid ground muddy into the death depths.
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Moby Dick (1956) – John Huston
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Toned-down, trippy-colored salty-candy trip about classic revenge and honorable madness. A well-manouvered, savagely hunted-down condensation of a source material “mastodon”.
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Cabaret (1972) – Bob Fosse
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Singing-dancing heavy downer light-show sharply staged around a three-legged relationship with sex, booze and blood outspoken with clear-minded, subtly astute dialogue.
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The Beach (2000) – Danny Boyle
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Great it´d be if its understandably-wrapped-in-commercial-crap internal jungle-fever madness would outgrow the bills to pay for this watered down effort.
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Joker (2019) – Todd Phillips
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Entrancing eye-mouth opener commercial film, widely deep cleaning it´s tired subject matter into something wilder stunning the soul free for a burning new world.
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Snowden (2016) – Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone-light, hyperactive non-action film that acts a greasy hook with a morally firm intent to blow it’s own bells and whistles away.
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Poor Things (2023) – Yorgos Lanthimos
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Fish-eyed, piss-European trip that´s mind-veneering even for the hardest of avant-garde-st getting bagged up drowned in the funny tasting river.
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Thirteen (2003) – Catherine Hardwicke
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Lucky number for derailment palming the air around the the missing family-cell walls while choking her own soul not to drown back into nothingness.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) – James Mangold
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Great for what it is: a moving-train jump into ageless redemption from the shards of bad casting trampling all over their own crystal skulls.
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Chapter 27 (2007) – J.P. Schaefer
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Jacked up in fat aggressively whispering for respect as an actor while shooting the wrong Beatle played by another actor actually sharing the killer´s name.
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Across the Universe (2007) – Julie Taymor
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Unannounced musical pushing Dear Patience for the trailer-allergic expecting pure dialog. It sugar-shocks with its spiral-singing flopping in steady but annoying beauty.
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The Station Agent (2003) – Tom McCarthy
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Warm-acted, well-hearted, boutique jewellery piece of naturally grown independent cinema that convincingly re-touches people´s frailty in great memorable angles of tiny actions.
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Beau is Afraid (2023) – Ari Aster
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Could easily be the far out-test comedy ever. A mummy-issued ego trip getting away with its masturbatory pretentiousness while begging for multiple visits.
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Oppenheimer (2023) – Christopher Nolan
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Impeccably not grainy but full of particles modern-talkie that feels much longer than only three hours long…ing still for more Gary Oldman time.
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Let the Earth be Silent (2023) – Fvnerals
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Solid spectral shit surrounding sound-minded guests with an obscurantist‘s pain manifest that only blood itself could come up with if it had a conscience.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – David Fincher
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It honors the original by keeping it Swedish all the way including blurry accents that can´t stop its long force of satisfactory texture-layer brilliance.
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Le dîner de cons (1998) – Francis Veber
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It starts really stupid but it Omelettes itself up into a kind of karma theater-play that’s different, kind and refined in an unpretentious way.
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The White Lotus – Season 1 (2021) – HBO
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Tense, biological comedy that rattles itself up like a rising sunset-snake squirming along a scuba-diving ray of light in a troubled water-sky.
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Dr. Leslie Arzt – Lost (2004-2010)
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He came as a symptom of common cast-flu but left as a hilarious martyr and plot-hero who briefly but firmly reached for redemption.
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Dr. Christian Shephard – Lost (2004-2010)
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A smooth, liquid chief surgeon who’s searching for himself and other clinically dead existential answers after lowering the bar as far down as to Australia.
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Shannon Rutherford – Lost (2004-2010)
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Everything is hot, but-her cold soul still stinking of bad spirits that left a long time ago because they just couldn’t take her anymore.
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Dr. Ethan Rom – Lost (2004-2010)
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Single, meanest Canadian man alive known in land, space and universe that will undoubtedly kick your blistered jungle-fearing ass with disturbingly rough impersonal kindness.
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Hurley – Lost (2004-2010)
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Most likeable of the cast-away cast despite being morbidly obese and condemned to comedy relief. He’ll grow on you proportionally to his own hunger.
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Good News About Hell (2022) Severance (S1.E1) – Ben Stiller
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A promising meeting between Being John Malkovich and Fargo infused in Ben Stiller´s blue steel vision of what a good Black Mirror would look like.
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Lost (2004-2010) – J.J Abrams
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Season one is condescendingly sexy in a poor man’s Hollywood/Holloway sort of way while sometimes delivering quality twists provided one’s disbelief gets suspended enough.
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Coopa – Hand Warmer
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A limb-saver for the cold-challenged at heart, body and mind. Truly helpful gadget one must appreciate despite its comic resemblance to a vibrator.
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) – Eric Appel
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Intentionally terrible and cocky to its audience. A well made piece of trash that feels like it’s laughing at you and should stay sketch-long.
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Men (2022) – Alex Garland
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Disturbing short-lensed piece of horror stunningly justifying its budget with visuals that let both the right talent in and over-the-top gore out.
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The Lighthouse (2019) – Robert Eggers
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Picture-pitch perfect except for the sound of farts offensively trapping a scattered
plot inside of a frame that hits one square between the eyes.
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Gnosis (2022) – Russian Circles
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Mercilessly immersive life-long branding mind slicer of an instrumental heavy metal music video that beautifully stuns with the brute force of a thunder-grenade.
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Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) – Ian Brennan & Ryan Murphy
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Intimate acid dive into the stolen perspectives of the Dahmer-ed down victims of a seemingly parental crime that got out of God´s wrathful hand.
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Arizona Dream (1993) – Emir Kusturica
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Vincent‘s natural performance gallantly steals an already stolen picture show navigated by a loud but warm director who makes the whole thing fly just right.
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Trees Lounge (1996) – Steve Buscemi
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Likeable round around Buscemi´s past featuring family and settings no one would object to watch other than a certain female interest that feels uncomfortably young.
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Artie Bucco – The Sopranos (1999-2007)
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A good cook that makes one sick in the stomach by cringingly mismanaging both self-respect and culinary success into a greasy cul-de-sac.
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The Rum Diary (2011) – Bruce Robinson
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Although preceded by a promising start, the problem springs up in the hollow-middle by scattering nothing around other than fun for the people involved.
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Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung – Berlin
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The Pharaoh´s curse comes as a sticky security guard who’s sometimes better lit than the stolen pieces themselves guilding an architectural gem with creepy cartonnage.
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Don’t Look Up (2021) – Adam McKay
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Long-winded screw-eightball of a dark & daring political comedy for the news-aware long-attention spanner du jour expansively mirroring 1976´s “Network” efforts.
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Lou – Fight Club (1999)
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He’ll sock it to you like a bag of alkaline Christmas chimney bricks that used to be sweet but now burn through charm and bone.
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The Sopranos (1999 – 2007) – David Chase
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When good casting goes in the right direction, multiple perfection chemically compounds into an
earthquake that enables entire oceans of televised series to rise up.
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The Loved One (1965) – Tony Richardson
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Smack in the stiff middle of the 1960´s cerebral courtesy: a sunny-dark comedy of the black & whitest kind adorned and embalmed with Liberace.
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To Rome with Love (2012) – Woody Allen
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Brass-balled Baldwin articulates the angry voice of reason coming from a late self-awareness that reflects the present with polished regret and self-derision.
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Numbface Chilli Original (2014) – Sally Foo
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Smile-colored, slow burning hot sauce that fires up the mouth and spirit with a crescent heat wave that is both welcome and long-lasting.
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Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (2019) – Quentin Tarantino
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Beyond the good one would expect as it beautifully boomerangs itself back to hoped-for Pulp Fiction territory only this time with a heavier cast.
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Marie Antoinette (2006) – Sofia Coppola
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Firmly cushioned in the eye candy of the revolutionary storm—adorned with a Rock & Rococo soundtrack that invisibly frames the perfect portrait of unawareness.
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Salininui Chueok (2003) – Bong Joon Ho
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Chest-kicking serial-crime kill-Thriller
of breathtaking simplicity and murky south-Korean self-deprecation finding grace in pratfalls and humor of the crassest kind.
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THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS (1993) – BILLIE AUGUST
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Creeping historical “hacienda”-ascension story full of good people playing uglier-than-fiction roles to cherry things on top of sourly majestic interior/exterior shots.
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Team Sleep (2005) – Team Sleep
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Color-blinding death-toned off-spinning voice-collage artsy-metal album that relaxingly flays out in every sonic direction with labyrinth waves of distorted comfort.
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THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) – ALEJANDRO JORODOWSKY
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Complex messianic circle jerk that transgressively fortune-wheels its dark-hippy nonsensical beauty around bringing its victims to a profound world of shit and cum.
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(T)RUSTY (? – 2021)
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A quick study Marilyn Monroe chicken who briefly rubbed everyone´s “Hühnerherz” in the rightest of chock-full-of-charm ways with graciously grave, feathered dignity.
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Almost Famous (2000) – Cameron Crowe
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Grounded with emotional veracity in the most vocal point of feud with the Death of everything that was holy and pure to rock and roll.
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GO (1999) – Doug Liman
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Tightly braided razor-wire-sharp mind-trip-comedy that daringly keeps coming back to itself while swinging hard with colorful come-ups and come-downs.
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The Prestige (2006) – Christopher Nolan
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Fully charged but its progressive energy keeps getting cut off by a silver screenplay that can’t tell exposition from emotional-trigger boredom apart at all.
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U Turn (1997) – Oliver Stone
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A big booty in the desert magnetically pulls sore strangers and their dry behavioural rage together to visit the normally closed off parts of hell.
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Death of Yugoslavia (1995) – BBC
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A fresh and detailed Balkan-conflict account audio-visually narrated in such a perfect crew-cut way that´s bound to blow any Ken Burns away.
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This Must Be the Place (2011) – Paolo Sorrentino
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Despite sugar visuals and good Penn-manship this film strays all over the place with those unafraid to fly over an ocean of scrambled plots.
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Se7en (1995) – David Fincher
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Tall, biblical thriller that out-of-the-box polishes and replenishes audiovisual standards up to a stern point of absurdity where nothing ends before pain.
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Saturday Night Wrist (2006) – Deftones
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Lyrical metal trip divining its way through inventive twists & shouts in the darkest of pink clouds in a self-medicated ward in the sky.
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Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
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“Morbid self-attention” won’t get you to revenge the world against what’s wrongly dark and seldom slightly right. “Don‘t you want to make it, mister?”
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Oldboy (2003) – Chan-wook Park
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Complex hard-watch that feels like a nightmare Sake bar-brawl-beating loop with a heart-kicking pace that punches holes into every moral direction.
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Basic Instincts (1992) – Paul Verhoeven
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Classiest porn noir of the century with a truly horny Douglas who keeps the viewer interested after manually climaxing for the first couple of times.
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Spiderland (1991) – Slint
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Dry up to caustic but full of silver guts bravado and true no-nonsense resuscitation that domestically questions everything that´s drowning in its quarrel-lake.
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Million Dollar Hotel (2000) – Wim Wenders
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A roman candle of crazy characters (most of which are no doubt stolen from nearby realities) in an overwrought romanticised dark comedy by bonehead Bono.
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Robert Paulsen – The Fight Club (1999)
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His name is Robert Paulsen and his tits are not as large as his wounded heart which bleeds loud & clear like testicular cancer does.
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Acidosis – Band Photo
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Three of them fucked prostitutes already. Two are on their way to their right-of-passage-overdose. The drummer studies hard to become an engineer.
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FFP2 NR Chinese Face Mask – Lidl
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For those who have ears a most unwelcome Chinese face mask that feels like making out with a Muppet inside of a sterilized hospital casket.
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Uncut Gems (2019) – Benny & Josh Safdie
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Punch-Drunk Love (2002) meets the Lincoln Lawyer (2011) with a pure Sandler as main stressing agent in a beautifully acted display of ugly characters.
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Rushmore (1998) – Wes Anderson
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Strongly-subtle dark comedy that can for days on end make one consistently laugh out loud at punch-line silences that stitch to the mind.
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Basquiat (1996) – Julian Schnabel
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Talent-heavy (cast-wise) downer about a man who erases his own by hiding behind an embalming hype that far outlasts its allotted 15 minutes.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
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Benchmark trip from a fantastic audio-visual realm that does not really clarify the slowly rotating Rubik´s Cube storyline that’s space-cold and trauma-like.
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The Virgin Suicides (1999) – Sofia Coppola
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A clandestine teenage brothel run by hard loving parents who keep basking in God´s rain right where the moral crater seems to bleed the most.
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Mank (2020) – David Fincher
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Single most black & white modern period-film exquisitely monkey-grinding the royal Randolph hemp out of us with Reznor-sharp reel-changing monochromatic flair.
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Francis Ford Coppola
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Not even partially dubious casting could jinx this blood-ruby of classy kitsch—carved out of morbid fascination and respect for the franchise´s original outputs.
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992) – Wojyciech Kilar
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It turns & churns its lyrical core longingly while secreting stringed beauty made fragile again and again by dramatic orchestral chords that rage with urge.
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12 Rules for Life (2018) – Jordan B. Peterson
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The patient himself must triage between a somewhat morally stiff and judgemental narrative and another one directed to the self that´s sympathetic and truly helpful.
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The Graduate (1968) – Mike Nichols
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With youth one can hide from adulthood either by extending it or revisiting…but to escape it entirely, however: one has to try much harder.
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The Graduate (1968) – Simon & Garfunkel
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Lukewarm ghostly at its wide-open churchy heart when not abruptly peacocking itself up with old lascivious grown-up lustre from nighttimes gone clandestinely wild.
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Bronson (2008) – Nicolas Winding Refn
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Precious stone of modern independent cinema and character study “par excellence.” Hysterical, ballistic and mordantly fulminant. A truly stimulating example for period-films to come.
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Forever Becoming (2019 Remaster) – Pelican
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The nicely hooded underground of a metallurgic engine compiled by four instrumental members who are fast in repeating themselves well in aggressive shoulder-patting patterns.
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Black Frost (2019) – Nailed to Obscurity
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Cool-covered dark matter album that pulsates with rhyming drums while guitars bend long and calm together between clear-gutter vocals in tension-releasing punctuation.
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Lords of Dogtown (2005) – Catherine Hardwicke
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The original sparks that supernova-ed a whole industry that ludicrously although successfully reinvented both the wheel and how to become a music-free rockstar.
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Maynard James Keenan (2020) – Joe Rogan Experience #1553
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Pair of big shots talking shit on modern radio like normal while acting like they don´t actually put their pants two legs at a time.
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One Hour Photo (2002) – Mark Romanek
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Uneventful eye-thriller meant to box-office fail despite helpful bad intentions. A film about film itself that looks immaculate but does not communicate well.
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Tabasco Mosquito Commercial project (1998) – Tabasco
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Every TV commercial should be exactly this long and at least this fun not to just suck the blood out of our lifetime and cash.
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Bronson (2008) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Evocative beyond repair dividing itself up with a greased-up tug-of-war between old and classic—both morbidly bound together with techno-dramatic ambiances.
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Unmountable Stairs (2014) – Witchrider
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An indirect-listening that can beautifully rock just so long as one does not pay too much attention. A promising commercial knockoff-band that’s decent.
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Mid90s (2018) – Jonah Hill
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Profound motion picture of short stature that proves itself large by showing with stunning, sympathetic sharpness how a pre-adolescent masochist jumps into intentional idiocy.
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“Hereditary – Movie Review” (2018) – Chris Stuckmann
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“Hey, you guys: me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. This movie is about me.”
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Hereditary (Original Soundtrack Album) – Colin Stetson
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Rich and nerve-ended with high contrasts that slow-blend without wood, wind or ecclesiastical resistance underlining sudden silences the way jump-scare noises should.
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Hereditary (2018) – Ari Aster
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Childhood-scary, sating and harrowingly haunting. It bends the mind in all directions while stiffing the body with soul-breaking terror that is just awesome.
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“Spaceship Bedroom Ambiance – Sleeping Quarter Stargazer (White Noise ASMR, Relaxation)” (2016)- The ASMR Geek
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Nerdy visuals and title aside this “autonomous sensory meridian response” video does reliably replay the perfect soundtrack for the thought-turbulent mind looking for clarity.
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Down on the Upside (1996) – Soundgarden
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Taut-tight effort from an established career-place where drums relentlessly support a steel-stringed trampoline for the instrumental human-voice to jump around ranges.
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Geneva (2009) – Russian Circles
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A sand-box full of metal pellets that get strained out by the end of an album which cauterises all wounds in instrumental song-form.
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John Carpenter´s Halloween (2017) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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Popular-music covers tend to work their best when close to source material spawning thusly fresh spokes instead of an almost always shittier new wheel.
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Vistār (2019)- Amotik
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Bass based arachno-rythmic techno stylings from Berlin that heavily drum the ear as a last vibration-stop coming from the rich underground shaking below.
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Matthew McConaughey (2020)- Joe Rogan Experience #1552
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Everything more than just “alright, alright, alright” for the first hour up until religion and Huston, Texas are brought up as buzz-killing subjects respectively.
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“Mantra” (2013) Sound City – Real to Reel
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The slow turning sonic framework of experienced formulas firming each other up in mature cooperation. A compound-track that for once does not sound condescending.
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Becoming X (1996) – Sneaker Pimps
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Good bad-girl song-set that studiedly teases the strung-out listener with a sensually anaesthetic voice that slides gently while burning with revengeful lyrics.
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Dazed and Confused (1993) – Richard Linklater
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Time-honored period-film that simply and independently pulls off a believable vintage-vibe by bringing out big nuances out of very small-town things.
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) – Jason Woliner
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Might be the worst sequel “ever to happen to a man or jew”, but its raunchy, manipulative heart still points generously in the right direction.
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Dazed and Confused (1993) – Soundtrack
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There are mostly unusual suspects to be found in this dextrously hand-picked movie soundtrack with 1970´s era-evocative songs that feel mostly like synonyms.
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Euphoria Morning (1999) – Chris Cornell
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It sifts true, strong emotions through the punitive barriers of commercial expectancy—afloat from the then gouged-out Grounge that originally propelled this fallen angel.
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998) – Neutral Milk Hotel
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Upbeat melancholy raft-ride that´s full of genuine quirkiness and maritime-saltiness that feels bittersweet and soberly sad. Trumpeting ever so slightly while floating around.
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Circumambulation (2013) – True Widow
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Deep, directional bass-foundation that hunters & gathers multiple singing flavors while firmly but timidly fermenting basically the same rhythm with the warmest of distortions.
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Black Celebration (1986) – Depeche Mode
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Death is on the air mainlining darkness into the mainstream through a polyphonic set of prodigious sounds and patterns that gracefully stumble out of adolescence.
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Child Soldier: Creator of God (2020) – Greg Puciato
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Transgressive-coersive effort that industrially scatters itself all over the place, deep-synthetizing just about anything standing its way while a versatile Sam Kinison sings.
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Bcd-2 (2008) – Basic Channel
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Intense sounds and rhythms that are like feeling the beating pulse of several types of factory machines at work with a subwoofer-ed up stethoscope.
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Beasts of No Nation (2015) – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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The automatic acid rain that comes with being a voiceless victim with no other choice but gravitational travesty. A perspective-enforcing film of monumental caliber.
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Memento (2000) – Chris Nolan
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Circular uphill post-amnesiac ride that prints itself out both in color and black & white while each new layer diagonally help us to remember.
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Holy Roller – Spiritbox
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Excellent low-budget music video self-presentation that further & heavily exploits its innate-tentional limitations by adding a wonderful found-footage vibe to itself.
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The Pandemic Special (2020) – South Park
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Only a real life pandemic-craze of biblical proportions could stop the world long and deeply enough to let South Park truly be funny again.
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Neuroteque (2019) – Juggernaut
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Short-butt, sweet-finger confetti that is sophisticatedly picking and plucking metal-stringed incantations that punch the spreading-ear into transporting rhythms that grow vast.
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Ghosts V: Together (2020) – Nine Inch Nails
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Merely and really the mono-thematic ghost of the former “Ghosts I-IV” (2008) album. Diluted while stringed together by ludicrous cries for emotional positivity.
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Guidance (2016) – Russian Circles
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An instru-metal journey that positively both ascends and descends with heavy ease while knitting mind-deserts that stay tarp-ed under a sepia sky.
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The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion
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Kurt Cobain´s last watched film: kiwi period piece that is really about prostitution rather than repressed passions juicing through the colourful cracks of dark colonialism.
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Seventeen Seconds (1980) – The Cure
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Remarkable techno-pop depth coming from an age-old youngblood with a voice that never changed and a background that should have stayed this pure.
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Station (2008) – Russian Circles
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The strict beauty of synchronised flight of heart & mind held together by sound in tragic camaraderie. Picking through the riffs of death & decency.
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Midsommar (2019) – Ari Aster
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Cliches are nothing but dosed up bait in an artistic horror film of compensatory length that lightens up instead of darken while blooming us away.
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What This Is
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Self-policing pain in the ass by design that’s addictive once text-fire gets caught and used to burn the bullshit we all carry around.
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Hürtgenwald – NRW, Germany
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The sensory intensity that’s felt through the uncontrolled reactions of those who ancestrally better feel what the terror of such approaching nighttime could be like.
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Blueprint for Armageddon – Dan Carlin
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A modern radio show that is definitely worth a dollar and however many sacrificial hours of lifetime this gentleman-and-a-scholar demands from us.
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Get the Sound-Musikhaus – Lichtenberg, Berlin
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Uta, the cool saleslady in charge was not only intelligently unobtrusive, but went out of her way to bring us the instrument herself after-hours.
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Yamaha Arius S34 B
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Unpretentiously elegant, distraction-free electric piano that plays the role of a servant rather than an ivory tower one has to climb up and worship.
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Opium
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Easier to procure in western Europe than a proper tradional pipe which would prevent overdosing on desperate consumption measures after failing to get famously high.
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Acid for the Children (2019) – Flea
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The audio form of this book never flees aways from emotional attachment while the author reads his own words with out-louding choked-up laughter.
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Hof Hauptbahnhof – Hof, Germany
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Single most depressing Bavarian train station that sits strongly still, endorphin-free but not majesty-deprived. It reproaches itself with agonizing ghost-town building ferocity.
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To You Don – October 25, 2019
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Pride doesn´t let me be anymore, I’ve wasted enough life with mine.
I’m calling you. Feel free to fume because I’m letting my shit go.
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German Sülze – First Time Tasting
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Very few acquired culinary tastes can act so quickly on a mind sitting close to an open stomach that awaits patiently in gelatinous timeless amber.
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Berliner ZOB (Central Bus Station) – Berlin, Germany
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They kick you when you´re down and they Flix you when you feel dumb-enough already. A central hub that denies kindness to anybody within.
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The Irishman (2019) – Martin Scorsese
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Crème de la crème of a celebrated lifetime of Midnight Espressos that cinematically pushes every right Benjamin-Button with medically accurate gore and passive wrath.
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The Meaning of Life
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To spread itself beyond everything that‘s false and half-done, like ego itself which is nothing more than a joke on the slowest among us.
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Oliver James – Electric Toothbrush
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What could go wrong at 40.000 vibrations per minute? Nothing at all so far but the feeling of guilt for not having used this before.
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Gladiator (2000) – Ridley Scott
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Twist-less crowd winner that Hellraises Oliver’s lion-faced redemption out of bloodied vistas like a fat Phoenix that Reeds of condescending soundtracks and cutting.
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Colosseum – Rome, Italy
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Entertained? Sure: I couldn’t possibly be more inter-stained by the thick glory of a 2000-year old ruin that drools dreams of dormant brawls.
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Simply Market – Rome, Italy
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Simply & sickly bereft. Zombie apocalypse jokes? Simple to make from the outside, but no doubt a nightmare for those gladiators about to be engulfed.
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Squisito Cook – Rome, Italy
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In the shadow of the valley of shit: mannerless gouching of tourist-gore that kills all buzzes from all over the world. Shame in you.
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Rauch Bakery – Berlin, Germany
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Stressed-out little man whole-wheat sandwiched between two strong ladies who sport tattoos and run the show where the thickest sausages vanish always early.
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Happiness in Slavery (1994) – Nine Inch Nails
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I get the feeling that back then it would be weird not to break your instruments on stage so one just had to do it.
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Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht 101-Year Memorial March (1.11.20) – Berlin, Germany
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A very eager but meager chanting crowd for such a clear winter day in which manifested mantras were encased by a comically large police force.
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Freebase N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)
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Colorful perception-ride that feels bittersweet but too short despite all the promise and self-advertising. One’s guts keep being tested even after repeated use.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) – Vince Gilligan
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A pastrie-bone of an off-spinning movie for those nostalgic fans who for years waited long between seasons. A cultural phenomenon that gives back.
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Night Walk – Johnny M
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Surprisingly effective rhythmic assembly line by the Joseph Haydn of techno music. It slowly grows solid into the listener’s headspace until the promised “deep” arrives.
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Thursday (1998) – Skip Woods
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Brightly lit indie truffle full of good dialog with intimately framed characters who are strong in blood and flavor including the most fatal femme fatale.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Few people truly dig his musical stylings. Most who try succeed only in short spurts while finding him dry like he’s a sandwich without spread.
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Martin‘s Vertical Video Bourrée
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Love the finger-ending and visual setup with Donald Duck and J. S. B. Somehow you’ve made the first vertical video that doesn’t look wrong.
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Robert Downey Jr. – Joe Rogan Experience #1411
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What makes this interview between these two public strangers stand out is that no one in it is either acting out nor being played with.
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Paul McCartney
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The core of the whole Paul Mccartney problem is that he’s been sober his whole life and didn’t die when the cosmic timing was right.
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Swedish Females
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Cream-petaled dreams of carnality one respectfully drowns into with every nerve-ending never ceasing to embrace the luxurious pain of lust and unavoidable longing.
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) – Mike Figgis
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Shue deeps her toes into cinematic greatness in an emotionally productive codependent-relationship with a very fine Nicolas Cage who gently escorts her around hell.
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Creepshow 2 (1987) – Michael Gornick
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Good times horror flick for the underworld-savvy Rock ’n’ Roll pre-teen that has a gluttonous taste for graphically warned sex and the macabre.
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Gangster No. 1 (2000) – Paul McGuigan
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Get yourself kitted out proper with an invisible rope around your bird´s neck until you´re cuffed. Don’t hate the player but love the bloody game.
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1939 Vincent HRD Series A Rapide – Jay Leno´s Garage (2015 – )
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Takes a good forty miles to warm up a Vincent, but it took Jay Leno only ten minutes to carburet my child-soul with charm.
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Defining the Future
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The Future: a creative room that’s sacredly cemented in every present that you own inside. Real is what you want, not what knocks you down.
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333: Justin Roiland – Duncan Trussell Family Hour
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An existential audio interview that multiverses itself inwards & outwards while serving the man behind the cartoon-mask well into being his own private self.
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Spun (2002) – Jonas Åkerlund
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A deliberately over-edited character-carousel colorfully whirling around all kinds of wild trailer-trash debauchery with the ruminating impatience of a coked-up policeman.
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David Lee Roth (2019) – Joe Rogan Experience #1256
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The Robbin Williams of aging rock & roll douchebags with enough acid juice to rise and fall a room full of medieval nuns into rebellion.
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GBL: Gamma-Butyrolactone (Liquid Ecstasy)
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Good things should taste bad out of counterweight and pride, unlike this bitter liquid letdown whose buzz justifies no small amount of self-roofied vomiting.
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Break on Through to the Paranoid Side – Black Doors
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Not just basically Danzig (as youtuber “Naykat” so cleverly commented), but what Glenn Danzig should sound like and what his wet-dreams surely are like.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Cage Creed
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A bright flame of a thespian toddler that thanks to the divine intervention of editing can do no wrong when melting the Arriflex lenses away.
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Cape Fear (1991) – Martin Scorsese
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Never underestimate the pain resolutions of those who’ve have been wronged by you. A cautionary moral mortality story in which everybody loses and were entertained.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Victor Pascow
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A very gruesome but friendly ghost the way Casper was meant to be but failed miserably due to its punch-me-in-the-face tenderness.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Louis Creed
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The pater familias and owner of the Norman Rockwell house by the side of the road-rope noosing around his trophy house-wife and kids.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – Terry Gilliam (Coincidental iTunes 25-WR by Gixxer k4)
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“Geiler Film hab mich tot gelacht als ich den zum ersten Mal gesehen habe. Ich will dir doch nur ein Z in die Stirn ritzen.”
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Get the Gringo (2012) – Adrian Grünberg (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.”
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Buffalo ’66 (1998) – Vincent Gallo
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All romantic comedies should be independent passion projects by law, the breaking of which should be punished by force feeding the perpetrator with commercial crap.
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North by Northwest (1959) – Bernard Herrmann
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A paranoid soundtrack that feels followed by an invisible group of listeners in every escaping note as it pushes itself back into in curious desperation.
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Gia (1998) – Michael Cristofer
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Being hot and wanted worked the opposite way inside the self-repelling time bomb that Gia Carangi really was. A flawlessly executed plead for caution.
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The Others (2001) – Alejandro Amenábar
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Intense beauty and fear holding hands in the permanent protection of a broken family that is full of love for one another in macabre ignorance.
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Neues Ufer – Berlin, Germany
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The revamped cafe near David Bowie‘s apartment where Iggy Pop and himself used to hang out at a time when English wasn’t the main language.
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All That Jazz (1979) – Bob Fosse
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Solipsistic Jizz-jerk that feels sorry for itself with a smile we all share in the gluttonous glitter surrounding our every longing delusion of danger.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Victor Fleming
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The Johann Sebastian Bach of relevant children films from an era in which intense fear and wonder was grafted onto them for their own good.
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About Schmidt (2002) – Alexander Payne (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A man upon retirement, embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter’s wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.”
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) -Mike Figgis
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Suicide is not painless, and drinking yourself to death has got to be one of the worst ways to check out of this world affair.
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Canadian Winter Socks
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Bled-dry like identical twins that were wrapped in air-sealed vellum in a mountain-core made with fraternal warmth in intention rather than practice.
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To Die For (1995) – Gus Van Sant
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I’d die for her in a heartbeat, wouldn’t anybody? No. Nothing like a motion picture to illustrate the obsessive use of externally abusive internal agendas.
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The Good Son (1993) – Joseph Ruben
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All gimmicks are truisms, and all truisms are true. A truly messed up kid portrayed as perfectly as a veteran Shakespearean hand playing a glove.
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Falling Down (1993) Movie Poster – Barry Ballaran
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The film’s primal-level Anger & Fear in an illustrated nutshell that calls for another one focused on the personal-level A & F instead.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) – Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone (Coincidental Rotten Tomatoes 25-WR)
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Never Stop Never Stopping updates the rock mockumentary for the 21st century mainstream — and hits many of its low-hanging targets with side-splitting impact.
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Falling Down (1993) – Prendergast
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An observant man who does not believe in the shutdown-retirement of duty and is blasphemed by the terrifying prospect of losing his existential stress.
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The Fat of the Land (1997) – The Prodigy
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The turning point for an underground project that successfully synched itself up to the pre-globalized world chaos around and churned its fears into butter.
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Invisible Dry Deodorant – Dove
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Many ways to doubt in a world full of choices. Classic means not-boring and the scent coming out of this blunt weapon bores none.
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Here Now, There Then (2017) – Dool
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Coronary album skidding straight into the spleen via female vocals that ring torching and down — cusps new dimensions that shift between fresh and nostalgic. Great.
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The People Under the Stairs (1991) – Wes Craven
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Twin Peaks (1990-1991) meets the Shining (1980) during the well-manored, palm-treed night vision period of the Golf War. Sometimes in is out.
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Falling Down (1993) – Seedy Guy in Park
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The epitome of the parasitical social sociopath and the dark behavioral counterpart of Seinfeld‘s (1989-1998) Kramer if let loose in the park long enough.
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Falling Down (1993) – D-Fens
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A man walking in the hottest of days with a rainless cloud above his head one drop away from spilling blood all over the place.
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Röad Crew American Pale Ale – Camerons
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Hoppy micro-brewery beer with a macro-price orgamastronically bottled up in ergonomic glass that feels like holding a ticket to an Umlaut-Metal concert.
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Březňák Pils – Czech Beer
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Czech beer is the gateway to all voluntary trouble like this sinister looking man glaring back while waiting for the slipped roofie to take effect.
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Holsten Pilsener – German Beer
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The slightly bitter taste of cold, windy summer days at sea under a sunshine that squints the eyes and gently burns the brow with stupor.
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Oettinger Export – German Beer
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Oettinger Export and its dreaded social stigma that can only be remedied by complete geographical self-removal and taking a quick swim in international waters.
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Get the Gringo (2012) – Adrian Grünberg
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Efficiently entertaining action comedy build around Mel Gibson’s bullseye charm with which both his personal and crew effectiveness are borderline groundbreaking at a snappy pace.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Mary Lambert
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Creepy-ass piece of horror in the time-honored “Sacred Burial Ground” tradition—notable members not exceeding the number of fingers in a monkey’s paw.
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Meeting with Isak
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He came and went like a whisperingly pensive Scandinavian comet, that every few years slow-burns the sky without judgment. An inversed pizza delivery-man.
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Amphetamine Powder “Speed”
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Cheap, powerful stimulant that manually overdrives initiative with benevolent side effects. The better of two evils when chosen over the AC/DC of drugs: cocaine…
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Twenty-Five 25-WR Bits/Day for 25 Days Rite-of-Passage Challenge – Day 2
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Completed Day 2 of the challenge this morning instead of last night (wrote 21 yesterday), which means I will reset the counter and start over.
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Twenty-Five 25-WR Bits/Day for 25 Days Rite-of-Passage Challenge – Day 1
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The truth is in the pudding and after ten failed attempts today´s pudding is confirmed as real. Twenty-four more days to go. Big challenge.
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The Weight of Memory (March 1973 – Onward) The Vietnam War: 01×10 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novack
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The White Christmas nightmare ending of a 30-year war that ironically led to Vietnam´s own “Vietnam”—and the final episode of this historical masterpiece.
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A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March 1973) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×09 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Oft-repeated bravery tends to lose its influence, but sacrificing one’s blood-earned trophies while Death keeps girding the biggest nothing in history does not.
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The History of the World (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×08 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Life preservation bears the brunt of an honor that stutters. All parents must be killed in order to break free from a Vietnamised Nixonian low.
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The Veneer of Civilization (June 1968-May 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×07 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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The shit-sandwich has gotten big enough to feed everyone not hungry twice—but Nixon, Kissinger and the Saigon cowboys are all doing just fine.
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Twenty-Five Word Reviews a Day for Twenty-Five Days Challenge – Day 2
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I find writing the 25-Word Review text itself not nearly as ball-breaking as it used to be but the formatting still takes long.
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It Follows (2014) – David Robert Mitchell
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A perfectly lighted, both gently scripted and edited Neo-Classical 80´s AIDS epidemic horror-metaphor that takes place in ghostly Detroit made by John Hughes.
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The Cable Guy (1996) – Ben Stiller (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A lonely and mentally disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.”
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Lost Highway (1997) – David Lynch (Coincidental 25-WR by David Sterritt from the Christian Science Monitor)
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“The film actually deserves four stars for its imaginative style and astonishing suspense, zero stars for its shameless exploitation of violent shocks and loveless sensuality.”
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Francis Ford Coppola (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.”
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Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.”
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Things Fall Apart (January-June 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×06 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Got offended by Tet, got let down by Lyndon, got sick from a reality that cannot be smelled through television…and now Dick is coming.
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Born Villain (2012) – Marilyn Manson
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It almost reaches a we-might-have-to-shoot-old-yeller situation. A chorus of mercenary yes-men amplifying one hell of a midlife crisis.
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The High End of the Low (2009) – Marilyn Manson
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Wish good luck to those thinking themselves unbiased enough to see this ordeal through. The equivalent of the Simpsons after Season 10. Needs a Futurama.
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Eat Me, Drink Me (2007) – Marilyn Manson
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Fantastic rock music with ballads that remind of the “Fundamentally Loathsome” days. Subject matter goes down the shit-rabbit hole when ego takes over, though.
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The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) – Marilyn Manson
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The Spooky Kids reanimated and back to their cartoon-interlaced world—only this time laid, with a budget, panache and rap-defying density of words.
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The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991-1996)
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Pioneering-gross, weird and wonderful. Perfect for adults who grew up with Tom & Jerry, Tex Avery, Film Noir, the Rat Pack and classical music.
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Lidl Supermarkets
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Good ole’ “Lidl” and their hit-and-miss product outbursts. Like a sacred cow, one dares not to touch it when a munchies wave arrives.
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36 ROOMS Hostel – Berlin
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Orbiting Berlin‘s drugstore par excellence: the Görlitzer; this elevator-less marriage of dirt and incompetence is nocturnally punctured by bell-ringing lost souls lurking outside.
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Idi i smotri/Come and See (1985) -Elem Klimov (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.”
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This is What We Do (July-December 1967)The Vietnam War (2017): 01×05 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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A war with no front is a body-count war that can only be won after the crossover point of dehumanization that Stalin-statistics promise.
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Twenty-Five Word Reviews a Day for Twenty-Five Days Challenge – Day 1
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The truth-telling pudding is back in the now still latent new past of today´s hours. Back on track after losing count on failed attempts.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.”
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Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×04 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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There is no point in wondering if your son has fallen face down in the bony lunar dust or not: they will let you know.
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The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×03 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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You´ll get lots more of this coup shit because reelection is the root of all evil in your Kennedy-less rolling thunder of a world.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Ellie Creed
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There’s something really naturally annoying about this child-actress’s performance that made her perfect for the part as one sides automatically with her brother instead.
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Mandy’s – Berlin
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Good impressions can only last so far. A proud example of how vast a legal grey area can be. Opportunism shines. Lamps are great, though.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Churchill
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There are some really interesting developments in this blue Russian cat’s character, the kind of revealing behavioral changes that are normally reserved to humans exclusively.
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Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch
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A magic potion picture film that blatantly discriminates color and is heavy and greasy to the touch with high-contrasting characters gunned out of lead.
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What About Bob? (1991) – Frank Oz
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Hey, don´t hassle Bob, he´s alright and local. Hassle yourself into a new reality instead, because the one you know does does not apply anymore.
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Holy Wood (2000)- Marilyn Manson
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Not disposable, but dispersed and gold-rushed. Has a sober motor under its political rib cage but it´s flooded with hubris and bad storms head.
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Da hong deng long gao gao gua/Raise the Red Lantern (1991) – Yimou Zhang (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.”
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Berghain XTC
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Very quaint choice for the non-dancing metalhead du jour and a behavioral challenge that parallels navy seal boot camp with a drill-instructing thirst.
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Sunday (1998) – Harmony Korine
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Just like with football stadiums and length, Culkin himself has become an unofficial time-measurement unit for those who´ve witnessed him grow up on screen.
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The Thin Red Line (1998) – Terrence Malick
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With crew, cut, script, cast and sound of high enough caliber can this force of nature celluloid projectile blow up any line to kingdom come.
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David Goggins (2018) – Joe Rogan Experience #1080
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There´s greatness on the other side of suffering. The necessary pain leading to success is a finite pain and it will inexorably reinforce your pride.
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Dortmund, Germany
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A seemingly hostel-less human-host of an eldritch character-town that insists in chaperoning at the bullfighting-Hauptbahnhof. All thick with bible pushing patterns.
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Tideland (2005) – Terry Gilliam (Coindidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.”
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Rachel Creed
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A short-haired, fair-skinned maternal beauty carrying a black hole of trauma as heavy as cement-dipped sumo wrestlers fighting in a sinking ship.
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Rio Bravo (1959) – Howard Hawks
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A Western with an afterparty feel to it that lacks nothing but is in no hurry to get anywhere fast and that works perfectly somehow.
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Journals (2002) – Kurt Cobain
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A very intimate peak into the soul of a young man dealing with the disappointment of having his bliss blown out in front of everyone.
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Tyskie Pils – Polish Beer
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Good ole´ Polish “Piwo” and its aggressive edge full of complex tests for strength of build and character coming out of an engrained cheerful bitterness.
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Mandy (2018) – Part I: The Shadow Mountains 1983 A. D
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Real love in the hearts of good people who find themselves in the heart of 44 misty mountains being knock-knocked by a heartless world.
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Casino (1995) – Martin Scorsese
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Glorious continuation to the perfect film that Goodfellas (1987) already is, magnifying the produce from every technical artistic prowess displayed before into another real story.
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Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
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Ask Johnny Two-Times how funny does he think this based-on-true-events mob movie is, and exactly how is it amusing and entertaining.
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Nil by Mouth (1997) – Gary Oldman
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Brutalist approach to visually materializing an agonizing reality based on derision and Death-toned humanity. Never underestimate the darkness within a man behind his camera.
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The War Zone (1999) – Tim Roth
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Tremendous downer that is no way shape or form meant to be pleasant—by one of the most charming and universally acclaimed actors out there.
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Love Liza (2002) – Todd Louiso
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Sometimes one needs to destruct the body to save the mind in sweet but most socially unacceptable escapism. The colorful roads away from matte black.
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The Tree of Life (2011) – Terrence Malick (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents’ conflicting teachings.”
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Live Through This (1994) – Hole
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Female perspective for angry teenage output and the start of a legitimate life long rebellion hopefully used to make an album once all grown up.
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) – Black Sabbath
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As satanic-ginger as it gets, a musical royal-ass worthwhile kissing with abandon. Ferrying-guitar paragraph-paragliding with Ozzy Osbourne´s idiosyncratic lovable luckluster-finesse.
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Mulholland Dr. (2001) – David Lynch
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The announcer vents the verdict: “ladies and gentlemen, madame et monsieur, I am proud to announce we have a unanimous all-time dream-sequence winner.”
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Wake in Fright (1971) – Ted Kotcheff
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Very impressive, anti-heroic Australian blue-flame of a unique film that is as intense, raw and real as Kangaroo carcasses frying in the bush.
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000) – E. Elias Merhige
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If William Dafoe needed an acting diploma this should be his master thesis to share with Keaton´s Beetlejuice (1988) and Gibson´s The Singing Detective (2003.)
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The Fragile (1999) – Nine Inch Nails
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It lacks a solid sound-slate design like the one “The Downward Spiral” has giving it a decentralized feeling somewhat affecting the old attention-span.
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Red White & Blue (2010) – Simon Rumley
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Did not see any extreme changes of mood or style coming before it turned into full-blown cinematic transgression. Better watched without previous plot knowledge.
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Gummo (1997) – Harmony Korine
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Midwestern white trash at its ingrown-peak shown under neutral autopsy lights instead of the usual ridicule a John Waters satire would no doubt use.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) – Wes Craven
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This film stays terrifying as it ages backwards into a welcomed relevancy that never lies. A master class of suspense, atmosphere and practical visual effects
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Alex Gener’s Poached Eggs
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A life-affirming treat of great culinary kindness that Gener-s your muffled hunger with a mouthful of smiles that will carry you surprisingly far.
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Falling Down (1993) – Surplus Store Owner
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A compressed symptom-centipede happy to impose who cuts and salts every social nerve-ending that tries to bounce him off while panting for closure.
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Falling Down (1993) – Frank the Golfer
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A universe-centering old man who confidently swings the worldly rules of gravity and decorum out of balance in order to get his balls around.
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Yellow & Green (2012) – Baroness
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It doesn´t grab one by the neck with intricate fancy like the previous albums but it does make the cut into their swan lake discography
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Purple (2015) – Baroness
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Too much self-complacent singing and riffing around—sluggish and resigned at times when Wanderlust is expected. Decent background music but nothing like albums past.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) – The Coen Brothers
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Highly original take on Homer’s odyssey in the rural 1930’s space, where bank robberies and racism are still a thing that could get you killed.
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Barton Fink (1991) – The Coen Brothers
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When the salesman is Death and not the other way around the block of sanity that keeps peeling off in blind corridors of walled desires.
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Miller’s Crossing (1990) – The Coen Brothers
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Drinking is no lubricant but a lifestyle. A hat is not an object but a character that wears you on while you try staying lubricated.
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Raising Arizona (1987) – The Coen Brothers
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An early proof of astounding pop-culture re-wiring prowess by bringing the screwball comedy (out of all dungeon-dead formulas) back to the mainstream
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T2 Trainspotting (2017) – Danny Boyle
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A circle jerk full of ballsy bells and whistles that addresses, entertains and extends everyone‘s self-destructive sense of nostalgia beyond whole mountains of warning.
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Low (1977) – David Bowie
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Poly-syncratic avant-garde mindfuck simmering ahead of its time with high-functioning, cutting-edge madness that is never boring to the sound or vision.
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The Vietnam War: The Sountrack (2017) – PBS
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Most of the usual late sixties/early seventies Momma & Papa-suspects in a soundtrack playlist that is not necessarily set-in stoned but beautiful.
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Ghosts I-IV (2008) – Nine Inch Nails
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Instrumental album showcasing Trent Reznor´s branchial talent for creating small pieces of stereophonic stress. Some sure came in handy for Burn´s „The Vietnam War“ (2017).
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In Country (1989) – Norman Jewison
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You can´t come back from a raw deal that was mainlined to you and got you grief-infected for life and just forget about it.
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Pretty Hate Machine (1989) – Nine Inch Nails
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A much less hermetic alternative when walking down the yellow big synth-road of the late eighties industrial-music industry in search for angry dancing.
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Dispatches (1977) – Michael Herr
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A novel that should be “read” in Braille with eyes closed while in nature to virtually realize what a year in-country does to you.
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Rolling Thunder (1977) – John Flynn
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Founding father of the Vietnam-Vet-Vendetta genre that´s still vein-popping while advocating separation of mind and body when it comes to romancing pain.
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Office Space (1999) – Mike Judge
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The breaking point in a man’s heart & mind contains nothing but shards of echoing contempt in his biosphere whereas others are martialled by cubicles.
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Interview the Vampire: the Vampire Chronicles (1994) – Neil Jordan
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One of the top ten (one can only wish there’d be so many) GOOD Hollywood vampire flicks that doesn’t feel like a lame juvenile setup.
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Carrey Family Reunion – SNL
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What do you give to the man who has everything? An impersonation comedy roast. With exception of ex-wives/girlfriends everybody is happy for him.
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Koyaanisqatsi (1983) – Philip Glass
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Life-centering original motion picture soundtrack of a one-word film that rushes through cloud-landscapes of the mind like hot iron through bible-paper.
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Form and Void (2014) True Detective: 01×08 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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What fears are you made of? Answer the call of Carcosa inviting you to enter the ancient light vs other-people showdown and find out.
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After You’ve Gone (2014) True Detective: 01×07 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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Those who want to get caught know that Death is not the end of it but the answer. No choice when helping what reflects you.
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Haunted Houses (2014) True Detective: 01×06 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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The dark side of karma and its forgetful rewards. No such thing as a back-door entry in prison. Tilt & slit or wreak havoc.
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The Secret Fate of All Life (2014) True Detective: 01×05 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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Time itself was created by Death and made into a spiraling circle where the future is always behind and keeps slipping through our flat fingers.
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Who Goes There? (2014) True Detective: (01×04) – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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There’s bulldozers of good stuff crammed inside this bonding episode including the Michael Jordan of one-shot scenes. Both Matthew and Woody can definitely jump.
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The Locked Room (2014) True Detective: 01×03 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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There’s relief in letting go, fear in holding on, Death in not owning while having thought otherwise…and lots of 2¢ in a $10-word.
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Seeing Things (2014) True Detective: 01×02 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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Immoral rationalizations put together in high intensity dogma-trafficking areas can only page you so far… Ask the right questions and meaning will historically align.
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The Long Bright Run (2014) True Detective: 01×01 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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A real pessimist with a magnifying cyclops-eye for inhuman precision and his compromising assigned-partner break the jungle-fevered silence of the Louisiana swamps.
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Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 (1824) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Single greatest human achievement when it comes to writing instructions down on how to best get universally desirable sounds out of stringing multiple vibrations together.
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Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 (1812) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Dancing with wine and roses around the vortex-rim before jumping into the last ride where the fat lady sings and the firmament cracks open.
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Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (1812) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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The chiaroscuro descent from the top of a wild mountain and the mystical encounters taking place in between. A nurturing experience full of didactic visions.
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Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 (1808) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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The key to isolation being dangled by Nature in front of the people-wounded heart & mind of a poisoned poet gasping for absolute-life.
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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op.67 (1808) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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His Diabolus in Musica symphony. Its first movement alone being more influential to the Heavy Metal phenomenon than Robert Johnson and Tommy Iommi put together.
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Zapfhan 88 Café & Kneipe – Berlin
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A strictly diurnal Berlin-Kneipe that stays warm with the friendly domesticity emanating from the elder couple running it along with Gizmo, the dart dog.
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Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht 100-Year Memorial March (1.14.19) – Berlin, Germany
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The many peripheral pamphlet-peddling false-messiahs satyr-strip the warm shoulder of an otherwise moving Death-ward march uphill under a vintage sounding rain.
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Pražské Metro – Prague, Czech Republic
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Long, steep, poster-fed escalators will ramp you deep down into the wind-bombed bowls of Prague. A teleporting trip sheltered from the heavens above.
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Maverick (1994) – Richard Donner
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“What good is an empty chair?” We have here a silver-tongued sharp-shooter poisonous charmer (who´s obviously up no fucking good) wanting to sit!
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Kingpin (1996) – The Farrelly Brothers
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The pain of being a has-been and staying hooked in the past with one hand while trying to make yourself vomit with the other.
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Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Roman Polanski
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A riveting montage about a young woman´s accelerating feelings of simultaneous loss of mind and innocence while inside the claustrophobic loneliness of a large metropolis.
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The Doors: When You’re Strange (2009) – Tom DiCillo
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Mr. DiCillo embarks on a moral expedition into the Johnny-depths of the collective unconsciousness to debunk derogatory assumptions short-changing the Doors/Morrison phenomenon.
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The Doors (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Stunning tunnel-vision composite that is dead-determined to focus on tip-of-the-iceberg aspects of a rich and extraordinary story. Kilmer shines possessed.
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1998) – Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss
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From recorded dictations, interviews and diary entries all dolled up by a ghost with a name working for The New York Times. Time anchored read.
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Mechanical Animals (1998) – Marilyn Manson
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An impeccable Rock & Roll concept-album of evocative stereo-sterility shining strong but cold with light-bending rhymes of emotional implosion and consensual descent.
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An American Prayer (1978) – Jim Morrison & The Doors
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The post-humorous poetic postures of a self-slained sage who´s
echoing inflamed-intimacy is being carried on the shoulders of his true soul mates.
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Morrison Hotel (1970) – The Doors
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Waiting for the Sun two times again while bar-diving savagely in the spirit of exploring the raw confines of the soul, mind and body.
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Smells Like Children (1995) – Marilyn Manson
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Sociopathic Extended-Play filler, mined-fuck with a couple of razor-sharp song-hooks giving a fake sense of familiarity and safety to dumb trespassers.
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Bad Lieutenant (1992) – Abel Ferrara
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The in-built morals that won´t stay numb after realizing there´s no caring-God but yourself and the strange, deflating pain that comes with it.
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Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×02 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Doc-decker Kenn and his proficient cut-crew vigorously but slow-motionly zoomIng in and out of the Burning lotus position that made everyone uncomfortable.
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Déjà-Vu (1858-1961) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×01 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Eloquently gelatinized historical coverage of a century of colonizing French-oppression of the Vietnamese people—before American military advisors started to stack up like dominos.
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Netto Supermarkets
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Good ole’ Netto and their comedic clientele bound to cheer you up in the darkest of days. MacDonald’s-type wannabe that missed a few meetings.
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Morton’s Fork (2014) Fargo: 01×10 – Matt Shakman
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Black-titled season finale that is riddled with assailing confirmations. Kill the predator and the threat will die, but how? Ask your eyes and see.
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A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage (2014) Fargo: 01×09 – Matt Shakman
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Malvo´s poison ivy-green tambourine of a charm sets a “Walking Dude” pace that turns any tight-net community into his sandbox in no time.
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The Heap (2014) Fargo: 01×08 – Scott Winant
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The masterful silent-film era visual eloquence will bring you up to speed in a criminal case that jumps much forward in time without warning.
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Who Shaves the Barber? (2014) Fargo: 01×07 – Scott Winant
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Lester grows the confidence of a greased-up assault rifle while a one-wolf army spree-killing vendetta takes place between cops, ambulances and hearses.
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Buridian´s Ass (2014) Fargo: 01×06 – Colin Bucksey
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Even Nature’s high-end predators can become prey in the white darkness of a heavy caliber snow blizzard-showdown orchestrated by a two-faced God.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Interior Set Design
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Richly detailed, sinisterly static interior designs that are choke-full of tell-telling family items that are arteried together by old New England American gothic.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Jud Crandall
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An agingly sweet giant fool of a man that means well but helps nothing but to accelarate what´s coming. How about minding your own business?
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The Vietnam War (2017) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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Unpretentious accompaniment piece of mature modern-minimalism that carries itself with the heaviest of solemnities while propelling a rice paddy of 2000-yard-stare flashbacks.
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Mandy (2018) – Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Hypochondriac teleport-trance music full of after-shock ripples of dread coming out of traumatic forces, but also wonder and authentic beauty that feels iridescent.
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Anti-Smoking Graphic Image Campaign – Nelson Tobacco
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Hilarious both to smokers and non-smokers, parents and non-parents alike is the Putin-looking baby about to baptize-burn his Death-wishing mouth.
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…And Justice for All (1988) – Metallica
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A Pandora´s box full of vitriolic virtuosity opened wide by the bitterness of Death (both intimate and universal) pestering the minds of grieving young men.
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Master of Puppets (1986) – Metallica
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Cliff Burton and the Orions erect a detail-dense gothic cathedral made out of nerve cords they strum further into sublimity. These kids can rock.
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National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985) – Amy Heckerling
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The Griswold kids got much uglier but the parents expand on themselves. Chase tilts his character‘s sanity into a benchmark-trend that runs solid today.
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Hamburger Hill (1987) – John Irvin
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By far the goriest, most visually grounding of the Revival-wave of vet-approved Vietnam war films that muddied the Clearwater of the late Eighties.
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Let It Bleed (1969) – The Rolling Stones
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A fine album about violence, anxiety and fear that somehow feels very relaxing to listen to. Perfect tunes from what is basically an American band.
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Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60 (1806) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Furtive sustain/stacatto start in dot-dash mode as if singing in Morse code while progressing upwards all the way up to the fucking zenith.
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I Origins (2014) – Mike Cahill
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Not even 11 Dalai Lamas could foresee legit twists in this half-lensed effort that’d otherwise be in the pits if it wasn’t for Michael.
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Pavillion Series – Hewlett Packard Laptop-Computers
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Convenience is the mother of all codependencies, especially when you´re owned by this hardware-repair tutorial that shines like Shinola while draining your life battery.
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There Will be Blood (2007) – Johnny Greenwood
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Where´s the horizon in a desert landscape full of the cosmic dust where both Bartok and Ligeti hide from the storm in an oil tank?
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The Soft Parade (1969) – The Doors
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Passive-aggressive instrumentation that looks after a wrapped-in-gauze Morrison by sidetracking him when playing with fire. Slightly dislocated but still coordinated Door´s disc.
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Strange Days (1967) – The Doors
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It´s only natural to love this album two times and get lost in grateful admiration thrice by each one of its ten lizard-hole tracks.
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Psycho Glass Bong – Amazon
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Its inevitable nasty looks bring a negative to a positive by keeping the smoker´s conscience in check. Should sell vaporizers as an after-poison cure.
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The English Patient (1996) – Anthony Minghella
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A closer full-color look into the lives, intrigues and conflicts of human mammals in the arid 40’s desert environment by the International Geographic channel.
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Network (1976) – Sidney Lumet
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Not to be taken lightly despite the dark humor that works every time. Outstanding satire on the organized religion that news and entertainment really are.
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The Departed (2006) – Martin Scorsese
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A dream-team cast presided over by Jack Nicholson in a Martin Scorsese film featuring Rollings Stones music…what could go wrong? That´s right: nothing.
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Gone Girl (2014) – David Fincher
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Insurmountably pristine cinematography that feels factory-sealed to the visual-touch. Fincher is a master of keeping us interested in people that make us flinch.
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Today´s 25-WR Birthday Toast: Paul Newman – January 26 (1925-2008)
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Newman´s own particular type of charm can only happen once a dimension. Piston paralleled lines of motored characters fed him well with the old adrenaline.
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Crumb (1994) – Terry Zwigoff
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So you think your family is weird? Brace yourself for the real deal. Unforgettable documentary showing more involvement than the genre ever intended to have.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Cinematography
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Nice & juicy saturated sky blues, grass greens, and shinny apple reds—as well as well-lit darknesses with no spared precious details to miss.
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The Six Ungraspables (2014) Fargo: 01×05 – Colin Bucksey
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In the animal kingdom neighbors don´t bring casseroles to the weak and wounded; they rain down on you like a hail of lead pellets instead.
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Eating the Blame (2014) Fargo: 01×04 – Randall Einhorn (Netflix 25-WR Review)
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“When Gus tries to right a wrong, Malcolm embraces his alter ego. Lester finds himself in a surprising situation and Molly uncovers a promising lead.”
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A Muddy Road (2014) Fargo: 01×03 – Randall Einhorn
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You don´t get to be the Supermarket King of Minnesota without making a few biblical enemies, but a bloodbath of motivational stigmata can really help.
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The Rooster Prince (2014) Fargo: 01×02 – Adam Bernstein
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Hot dish of character introductions served with a neurotic taking-care-of-business beat in the background that’s scratchy and stings like a piss jar.
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All In Hostel/Hotel – Berlin, Germany
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“Bate & Switch”-cheap, high-rotation establishment where phone signals mysteriously vanish inside an undermanned perimeter. Its sought-after location is the only redeeming quality.
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Attenzione – Berlin, Germany
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Pay attention to the sexless Berliner Kindl inside of you and enter this friendly German smoker-expressionist bar where hard liquor is served upside-down.
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Edeka Supermarkets
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Good ole’ Edeka and their miscellaneous upper-echelon products, where the meek gets to steal some social glory opposing the far less discriminating shopping options.
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Motorama (1991) – Barry Shils
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The “Myth of Sisyphus” for the self-made kid stuck in a cartoonish world unsupervised by dim-burnouts soiling the oily ground that spawned them.
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Pax 3 Vaporizer
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Confirmed letdown despite great slate design and intuitive iPhone app interaction. Needs larger visual smoke-reward as not to make the buyer feel somewhat cheated.
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Platoon (1986) – Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone’s first installment of his venerably veritable Vietnam War film trilogy, starting with his own experience as a volunteer coming from a privileged background.
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Aldi supermarkets
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Good ole’ Aldi and their masterful product catalogues featuring fashion models that are just the right amount of attractive without ever alienating self conscious customers.
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Dissociation (2016) – The Dillinger Escape Plan
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Farewellalbum der Noise-Legenden, mit all ihren Einflüssen in unkonventionelle Songstrukturen gepackt, lässt den gläsernen Tunnel implodierend zerbrechen nachdem man die katatonische Finsternis erreicht hat.
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REWE Supermarkets
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Good ole’ REWE and their fine, true, white ‘n blue “Ja” products paving the way for young adults to build a future-holding present up.
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – John Carpenter
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“Do you read Sutter Cane?” No, but I know H. P. Lovecraft and this is a direct homage. A teenage trip I´m proud to like.
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Born the Fourth of July (1989) – Oliver Stone
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An important story about disillusionment prevented from further skipping generations thanks to putting resources and creative control into the hands of those who lived it.
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Place Clichy – Berlin, Germany
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A good choice for an intimate downtown soirée bar experience that is warmly lit, musicalized and served by the majority of one single vocational barkeeper.
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City Kino Wedding – Berlin, Germany
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An emerald hiding in the bushes around Berlin’s Eiffel Tower that could only be better if popcorn was sold and the projection rooms were darker.
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Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch
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Rare, inextinguishable desert eagle of directorial dedication and infinitesimal-involvement that relays on meditation to sink within and come out ultimately with practical plastic art.
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The Big Lebowski (1998) – The Coen Brothers
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From a jurassic VHS era where unpopular releases survived by the skin of their toothless box-office insignificance to now when people can’t get enough.
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You Were Never Really Here (2017) – Lynne Ramsay
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Wundervolle Schauspielkunst und Kameraführung und trotzdem solider Standard dank der Handlung, welche schon zu oft im Mittelpunkt anderer Glanztaten war.
Brennender Phoenix umgeben von Asche.
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The Road to Wellville (1994) – Alan Parker
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Never neglect a beautiful woman the doctor says. You better do what he says or he´ll be sure to beat the Kelloggs out of you.
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Twelve Monkeys (1995) – Terry Gilliam
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Fantastic paradoxed-up, apocalyptic flick that makes us feel like we´re hanging tight to the hero´s back the way baby monkeys would in the wild.
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Supernova in the East I (2018) Hardcore History: 62 – Dan Carlin
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Incredible to live to see the day a history filibuster this caliber and length would be popular. Could only improve if Orson Welles was reading.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) – James Cameron
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The Heather Graham of good, smart, gracefully aging action films that´s also one of those rare cases in which the sequel improves on the original.
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The Big Lebowski (1998) – T-Bone Burnett
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A bombastic sound-piñata that’s sectionally in-and-out of beautiful nonesense that keeps firing up until the chamber is empty and finally goes “click.”
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Days of Heaven (1978) – Terrence Malick
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Love triangles don’t work, period; but if you’re going for it do it during the magic hour when light makes everything look and feel right.
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Badlands (1973) – Terrence Malick
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Terrence’s malice is in the details, Martin’s Malick in what he thinks but does not say. Sissy has none but carries the curse of passiveness.
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The Thing (1982) – John Carpenter
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Just about the wildest cosmic cabin fever imaginable while stuck in white-desert limbo with “twelve” angry man deciding who’s next at the burning stake.
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The Hunger (1983) – Tony Scott
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A good collection of real-life vampires that will forever walk in beauty in this string-chambered celluloid-gem that survives a handicapped subject-matter.
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003) – Guy Maddin
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…in the happiest German-expressionistic “talkie” that comes to mind. A dream-hybrid between narrating silent-era camera moves and gold-digging song and dance.
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Summer of Sam (1999) – Spike Lee
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Everyone curses except for the killer and his dog in the hot and sticky summer of our discontent made glorious winter by this fucking masterpiece.
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Female Perversions (1996) – Susan Streitfeld
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The ticking time-bomb that appearances really are and the pale, psychotic knuckles betraying the grabbing on to it. Tilda swings herself away in submersion.
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The Crow (1994) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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I think we can all agree at this point that this is a good soundtrack coming from a terrible movie nobodöy should bother with. Period.
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American Psycho (1991) – Bret Easton Ellis
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“Portnoy’s complaint” for the young and murderous big-shot business man. A masturbatory stream-of-consciousness confession which is really a satire on untouchable people.
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Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski
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The right era. The right casting. The right script. What can I tell you, Roman? You’re right. When you’re right, you’re right, and you’re right.
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In a Lonely Place (1950) – Nicholas Ray
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You don´t let a dame in distress walk into your place for help twice without secretly testing your own fidelity to yourself and professional practice.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
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How can you tell if the gold is even real when inside your head everything is in black and white? True colors cross you twice.
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The Social Network (2010) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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A shape-shifter of a soundtrack that is set in motion by the constant clashing of David Fincher´s brass images breaking into kaleidoscopic minor harmonies.
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Inherent Vice (2014) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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A perplexing ride-along with a heroic heroin-free doper peek-eye in one of the most confusing coordinates of time to be anchored at.
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Feuermelder – Berlin, Germany
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Place is great, but it badly needs more poser-pesticide to demotivate newcomers. Beware of the bathroom sink: it might wet your crotch too much.
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There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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A very proud and angry turn-of-the-20th-century prospector carries inflammable cabin fever around him everywhere/everyone he choses to own and drill.
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker´s Apocalypse (1991) – Fax Bah
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Eleanor Coppola´s heart is really where this film-of-a-film is coming from. It domestically follows her husband´s dive into the spreading jungle darkness.
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Mid90s (2018) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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Subdued sentimentality is something to cheer for these days. This particular soundtrack feels warm with emotion that´s reminiscent of deep days of wild adolescent breeze.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) – The Coen Brothers
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The exquisite sense of irony of modern man’s bullshit life is never dry-cleaner than here; all been told in luminance levels imbued with Beethoven.
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Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
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Far-out anti-war/pro-drugs cinematic experience that hits its heart-target as a perfect Parthian shot taken while exiting the dark 1970’s jungle.
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The Crocodile’s Dilemma (2014) Fargo: 01×01 – Adam Bernstein
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Seamless ice-breaker taking dragon-filled roads not meant to be taken while soft jerking hands keep us from resisting the cataclysmic red tide ahead.
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Cheese Burger – MacDonald‘s
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So bad that is good, but no need to feel cheated: this is a fair, trustworthy mistake that you should own and be thankful for.
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Sexy Beast (2000) – Jonathan Glazer
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Happiness is skin-drying under the molting Milky Way of Spain in a fortress carved out of distress. Unhappiness is having Mahatma Gandhi come visit.
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Kobani Bistro Cafe & Bar – Berlin, Germany
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It looks and feels like a Vegas Turkish spaceship powered on beer and hard liquor. Chat-less but content personnel in a state of grace.
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Diamond Dogs (1974) – David Bowie
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Poetic genocide for the R & R crowd with both vitamins D & B promulgating plastic progress growth that could go either U or D.
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Boogie Nights (1997) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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The wonderful places you end up in when you’ve got nowhere to come back to. Fear and desire can spawn lots out of an edge.
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Vulgar Display of Power (1992) – Pantera
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There is nothing vulgar whatsoever about this accomplished Heavy Metal album that conveys hollow-filling lyricism preciously percolated through loss, disappointment and (ultimately) constructive anger.
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Fargo (2014) – TV Series
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Single most brilliant franchise germinating out of a long-established film I have ever seen. It magically does not dishonor, disappoint or turn anybody off.
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Frank (2014) – Lenny Abrahamsom
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He‘s the amalgamation between Syd Barret and the most bizarre talk show host imaginable. The brightest side of mental illness shines through this crazy diamond.
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The Wall (1982) – Alan Parker
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Majestic musical giving sound and picture to the specific traumas of growing up in a walled-in society and carrying it everywhere like a disease.
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Baskets (2016) – Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Krisel
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Louie Anderson’s first appearance instantly disappears winning you over for the rest of the series. Galifianakis and company grow on you like you wouldn’t believe.
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Antichrist Superstar (1996) – Marilyn Manson
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Conquering self-pity with heart, mind and complacent malice. A premonition revenge story by a brilliant tributist who brought hell to those who doubted him.
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FlixBus
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Asphalt-bound “Ryanair” for masochistic cheapskates with a marinating sense of time that could otherwise be ripped-off all at once like a budget bandaid.
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Falling Down (1993) – Joel Schumacher
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Is human decency economically viable? A day in the life of a middle-aged, divorced family-man going through the existential heatwave of a lifetime.
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Emil‘s Bistro – Berlin
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A we-make-our-own Turkish-pizza bread type-establishment that offers not only just that but the single best Italian-pizza in the country.
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Smack My Bitch Up (1997) – Jonas Åkerlund
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Groundbreaking first person-
shot music video by the Guns ‘n Roses of techno that taunted the hell out of the Western pre-internet mainstream media.
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Closer (1994) – Mark Romanek
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The crowning achievement of the golden age of MTV music videos by unsung cinematic master Mark Romanek. Single greatest favor Joel Peter-Witken ever got.
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) – Mary Harron
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People go after their fifteen minutes of fame the way a moth goes to a flame. Symptoms of burning can only manifest in negative ways.
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Nobody’s Baby (2001) – David Seltzer
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An almost invisible Gary Oldman is betrayed only by his exuding greatness while saving a motion picture that will chapstick you in many uncomfortable places.
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HBO’s “Feature Presentation” (1983) – Intro Sequence
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Way up there with the “Beetlejuice” (1988) intro. What lucid dreaming should be all about. A model for model-filming sequences that still stands out.
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) – Mel Gibson
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Only Gibson‘s own radical passion could heal the constant wounds of a hemophiliac subject that never begins to end. Pleasure-pain for the dogma-giddy.
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Electric Ladyland (1968) – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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The man obviously knows what he´s doing by performing open-cock surgery to himself. An entire album recorded “in the zone” with no spared expense.
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The Night of the Iguana (1964) – John Huston
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Aging can (and will) drive you crazy as long as you´re not keeping up with your peers. Are clergymen exempt from this? Let´s find out.
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The Red Album (2007) – Baroness
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Mesmerizingly aggressive pineal gland-wise with a beginning that is gradual and all-embracing — ka-blooms inventive sinewaves that increase consistently all the way through.
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Blue Record (2009) – Baroness
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Baroness: the Claude Debussy of the modern school of stoner metal proving itself once again with sub-aquatic riffs from a progressive civilization gone under.
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Generator Hostel – Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
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The place has a charm—in a massive chicken coop sort of way. Mile-away bathrooms. Empathetic staff that’s aware of all shortcomings. Convenient location.
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962) – Blake Edwards
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Always soul crushing to see a grown man sob like a silver child in a fairytale world where alcohol turns back into heroin every midnight.
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John 5 (2005) – Songs for Sanity
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As variedly hectic as Carmen Miranda´s head on a silver carnival-platter. Boggles the mind how he kept it all to himself under other egos.
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Diary of a Madman (1981) – Ozzy Osbourne
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Certain Rhodes you take U-turn you into an instant believer. The power of a missed presence and its missed chances sounds strong and latent.
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Nola (1995) – Down
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Down´s “New Orleans, Louisiana” album is a motherfucker and let me tell you why: Phill Anselmo, Pepper Keenan, Kirk Windstein, Jimmy Bower and Todd Strange.
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Astro Creep 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (1995) – White Zombie
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Temptation-laden roller-coaster ride for grownups full of big-titted spooky hoots, chunky scoops of industrial-refinery riffs and B-movie references all over.
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Modern Drunkard Magazine – 25-WR Websites
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The site has a lot good creative energy that glows through preserved jam jars of ideal writing and graphic design. Affirmation for the solitary imbiber.
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Startdust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) – David Bowie
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It has the moxie/mojo of five Dominican Republics arching backwards while juggling leper-chainsaws on Guiness posters in wet-woven shit-hole London pubs.
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Waiting in Line at the Supermarket Photograph
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Few things hit the core of emotion harder than the stroke-like feeling from merely viewing an optimised version of what already has no flaws.
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Korn (1994) – Korn
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Hearing a grown man sing in tongues, scream and sob with sincerity for the world to judge is as rare as a happy Radiohead song.
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Piece of Mind (1983) – Iron Maiden
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Swift, centrifugal riffs that are in no hurry to finalize long-trotting sound-grids. A high-flying Bruce Dickinson swishes spreadeagled between instrumental Sun-silences.
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Portrait of an American Family (1994) – Marilyn Manson
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Creatively indestructible diamond-in-the-rough lecture that needs no polishing. The roots of an escalating discontent that aimed for, reached and passed the stars.
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Technical Ecstasy (1976) – Black Sabbath
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The sweet smell of decomposing fruits and flowers by the droning can-opener-crackling sound of tin-robot pornography underway in industrially-lit primary colors.
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Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958) – Frank Sinatra
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Class-act whining coming straight from the Chairman´s sick-with-solitude vocal tract—a sound that is being perfectly escorted by a somberly enabling ensemble.
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Le violon rouge (1998) – François Girard
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A beautifully crafted international film that follows the undying nomadic life of an inanimate object that both brings and ends life to those around it.
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Låt den rätte komma in (2008) – Tomas Alfredson
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As if the Scandinavian cold, darkness and depression wasn´t enough, there had to be a goddamn vampire on top. Better lock your windows too, people!
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JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Maybe Oswald was a great shot after all and single-handedly dented the world with a fulminant sacrifice…a patsy-making film of paranoid passion.
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Los Negritos – Coffee
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Corpulent coffee from the Canary Islands that doesn’t feel rude to the palate or the nerves when stimulating other than curiosity for its racist presentation.
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Lübzer Pils – German Beer
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Brewed in a somewhat hidden town where an ancient tower pinches the star-saturated summer night while cutting crises past, present and future in half.
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Hearts and Minds (1974) – Peter Davies
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A sweaty collage of participant-perspectives circling down the drain of an exhausted conflict that Americans so tip-of-the-iceberg-ly deemed too long.
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Fargo (1996) – Joel & Ethan Coen
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This is the big fat mothership originally carrying the rich Paul Bunyan-esque dimension where true stories are always told exactly as they never occurred.
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Edmond (2005) – Stuart Gordon
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What happened to Macy´s character in “Fargo” (1996) during his New York trip the day before he got arrested as well as the jail aftermath.
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Snatch (2000) – Guy Ritchie
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Never go to England, but if you do, make sure your shoes are shit-hole proof. A comedy with a primeval force that is exquisite.
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Welcome to the Machine (1977) – Gerald Scarf
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Now we know where all that elevator blood in The Shining (1980) was coming from. A barrage of depressing thoughts inspiringly hand-drawn into hysteria.
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971) – Dalton Trumbo
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Written and directed by a black-listed Spartan-man who´s only begotten power was paralyzed by the wronging sword of a State of infuriating affairs.
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The Wall (1979) – Pink Floyd
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Maternal hub of all solipsistic concept albums having a strong autobiographical-novel taste of pathos. Having a big ego is not always a bad thing.
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Taxi Driver (1975) -Bernard Herrmann
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Sharks and alligators up to no good marauding in sacrosanct agreement in the form of slow amphibian dancing in the sulphuric waters of creative Death.
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win (2015) – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
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Reasonable book mined with age-old concepts that are freshly impactful mainly because of its truthful source.
A mature guide to self-less, venerable leading.
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The Mercenaries (2009) – Resident Evil 5
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Intensely satisfying buddy-shooting/body-counting experience that rightfully compensates us for being forced to suffer a stupid plot and voice acting to get in.
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The Border (1982) – Tony Richardson
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To monitor the fringes of the world for monsters is what the self-serrating brain of law-enforcement does best. An acquired taste in morals.
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Withnail & I (1987) – Bruce Robinson
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Here´s where you write. Delete this text to set the Word Count to back to zero but do make sure you stay between the signs.
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone
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The Italian mammoth-mama of all justifiably long, resentment-free films that is perfectly casted, filmed and performed thusly keeping the human-continuity from slipping.
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) – Jeremiah S. Chechik
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An accident-chased Clark sharpens his daredevil act to get everyone closer together and share his incandescent vision of what Christmas should be all about.
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Today´s 25-WR Birthday Toast: Marilyn Manson – January 5, 2019
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Self-taught & made word-gamer, social-combustion agent and living work of reference-art that ages backwards while carrying torches of his own heroes.
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Rammstein: Deutschland (2019) – Eric Remberg
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Rammstein is back to its basic decency with redeeming visual cheap-shots shocking the most common denominator with enough charm to get away with it.
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Keith Flint (1969 – 2019) – 25-WR Eulogy
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The firestarter himself is now extinct, but not for those who´ve never met him personally but got burned through the flames of his bizarre fame.
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Capricorn Horoscope for Feb. 12, 2019 – Phil Booth (Condensed to fit 25-WR format by Kiefer)
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Success hinges on action. The time of discussion of details is nearing completion. A plan will lift you to achievement. Be bold in your actions.
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Broken Flowers (2005) – Jim Jarmusch
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We´re only as good as people´s memory of us. What do you give to the man who has everything and still seems sad? A ride!
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Gran Torino (2008) – Clint Eastwood
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The almost insufferable high-school-play acting during the first part feels like a favor owed to someone we like. Clint sings and saves it.
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The Man in the White Suit (1951) – Alexander Mackendrick
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Hunting down the single cleanest man on Earth to make him dirty like the rest of us is not such an easy task after all.
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The Wraith (1986) – Mike Marvin
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The darkest shade of Sheen at the peak of his fountain-of-youth fame before infamy made up most of his name despite respectable nepotism.
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The King of Comedy (1982) – Martin Scorsese
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Don’t let anybody tell you who you are all your life and be a schmuck. Period. There’s always a way and here’s one of them.
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Angel Heart (1987) – Alan Parker
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Harry Angel: Hey, you ever watch the Mickey Rourke Club? ‘Cause you know what today… today is? Today is Wednesday. It’s anything can happen day.
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Barry Lyndon (1975) – Barry Lyndon
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Hopefully in this day and age of long forms of entertainment such as the video podcast people can finally quit complaining about Barry Lyndon’s length.
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Nevermind (1994) – Nirvana
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Come as you are and stay away from the territorial pissings that will drain you. Well-bred album even in his youth on a plain.
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Permanent Midnight (1998) – David Veloz
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A passionate and out-of-character character for Stiller, that he brings out convincingly in an extreme case of adrenaline addiction under strict hyper-functionality.
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Scott 4 (1969) – Scott Walker
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Boyish sounding mature-troubadour voice, that´s like mixing Beck Hansen with Chet Baker wrapped in strong, paradoxically manly French-flair. An Ingmar Bergman-Western soundtrack.
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Stanley Kubrick
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A two-parter prequel to “Birdy” (1984) following the character’s experience in the millitary from boot camp to combat under the name of private Joker.
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Spartacus (1960) – Stanley Kubrick
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Hard to believe this unquestionably classic film would have trouble seeing the light and burn holes through egos until Kubrick rose up to the occasion.
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Was bedeutet Stan Lee für mich?
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Visionär, Kriegsveteran, Superheld, Legende.
Seine Kreationen haben mich, von introvertierter, zurückgezogener Kindheit bis zum heutigen fieberhaftem Nerdismus begleitet und geprägt.
Einer der letzten ganz Großen.
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Waiting for the Sun (1968) – The Doors
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Ceremonial sound-potion for trance-transitioning between ghosts in pursuit of sacred inner-galactic truth. That and happy-sounding tunes with deep, philosophical fine-print.
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The Shining (1980) – Movie Trailer
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What a trailer should be: it neither whores itself up nor talks down to the audience. Nothing’s revealed nor explained. No Jack Nicholson bait needed.
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Flensburger Pilsner – German Beer
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A message in a bottle in the form of a German haiku with too many letters in each word to be remembered or thought of.
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Amstel Hostel – Berlin, Germany
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Exemplary youth hostel that should be a benchmark for businesses of this kind. Competent, unobtrusive staff that’s overall present in the result of their craft.
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Today´s 25-WR Birthday Toast: Hal Holbrook – February 17 (1925)
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An old man who never bothers anybody by carrying everyone and everything around him. A Twain-er that always meets his stage and life Mark.
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Rosebud (1993) The Simpsons: (05×04) – Wesley Archer
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Incontrovertible argument in incredible 20-minute “Citizen Kane”-nod form, permanently proving the fabled “golden age of Simpsons episodes” to be a very real thing.
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Louder than Love (1989) – Soundgarden
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The unmistakable push of pure life is loud, raw and true through the close-chambered vocal channels of a talent not yet spent and buried.
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String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18 (1801) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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A gang of stringed vandals shouting brash intentions of carnal camaraderie from the wooded rooftops of a most instilled insistence. A steeling portal to passion.
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Collapse EP (2018) – Aphex Twin
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Digitalized aboriginal music from a remote bush-village inside Twin´s gelatinously warped mind with tubular beats that sound like a bull in a sampler shop.
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Salvador (1986) – Oliver Stone
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It starts out with an almost comical Hunter S. Thompson road-trip air, but quickly takes a wild U-Turn into “The Killing Fields” (1984).
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Let it Be (1970) – The Beatles
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Here´s where you write. Delete this text to set the Word Count to back to zero but do make sure you stay between the signs.
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Yellow Submarine (1969) – The Beatles
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Beatle-order by diminishing personal liking: John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and MacCartney, the Sting of the fame-tatooed quartet that shared the glitch.
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) – Martin Scorsese
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The horrors of a corrosive fantasy that Highly Defines the ugliest sides of an already hideous humanity dead set on giving bliss a dead end.
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Falkenfelser Pilsener – German Beer
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Not as hard to find as the Maltese Falcon (1941) but it does fly off the radar of memory when not consumed or seen habitually.
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Burger King´s Building Exterior – Dortmund, Germany
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Single nicest, most regal Burger King exterior I have yet seen displaying a stately too-nice-to-be-opened facade framing all tragic trashiness inside.
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Tool (06.02.2019) Tool Tour – Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
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As strange as watching a concert of this calibre while sitting. A peripheral experience right at the center of those old enough to appreciate it.
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Today´s 25-WR Birthday Toast: Christian Bale – January 30, 2019
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Goodnight, sweet Welsh psychopath. May you live to be a thousand and then be the first thespian allowed to drink the definitive Death-stopping potion.
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Haribo – Hans Riegel, Sr
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From the same town that gave Ludwig van Beethoven birth but less recognition than anywhere else as opposed to the gummy bears which stay sacrosanct.
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner
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The Jane Fonda of rockumentaries that also happens to be a comedy that mock-documents a fictional rock band that has become realer than life.
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Shout at the Devil (1983) – Mötley Crüe
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Feel-good Hair Metal front that is well produced and full of practical ideas but its Umlaut-heart is really in the pursuit of pussy.
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Freak Show (1997) – Silverchair
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Power-upgrade to a genre that was and keeps being lifted by an open gush-gust of rocking air from silver-fox of a chair.
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Heavy Metal (1981) – Gerald Potterton
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Fantastic hand-drawn animation that floods the viewer with imagination while drowning itself dry with the classic form and purpose of an anthological rollercoaster ride.
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Wood Chopping
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Few things in this world can elevate a broken man into the proud sublimity of anger as abducting and butchering wood from a German cemetery.
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Waiting for Guffman (1996) – Christopher Guest
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As fun as playing with “My Dinner with Andre” action figures. “Second City TV” has an incredible Guest director. Only thing missing is John Candy.
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The Selfie Stick
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Lamest thing since the Bluetooth earpiece. It’s neither a tripod, nor a weapon (but a good repellent.) Does it catch lightning? I sure hope so.
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WHOOSH! – Screen Shine
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Overpriced but packaged charmingly enough to get away with it, just please don´t catch yourself inadvertently trying to spray it behind your ears like perfume.
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Gravity (2013) – Alfonso Cuarón
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There´s no up or down in the people-poor vacuum of outer-space where you´re side by side between Cary Grant and an unbeatable view.
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French Fries – MacDonald’s
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Good ole’ MacDonalds: you always know what to expect no matter where the hell in the world you are. The true value of this restaurant.
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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001) – Danny Boyle
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Flair and flavor remain strong in a brave new decade, only this one feels like an aggressive early-two-thousands stream-of-consciousness psilocybin trip.
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Bloody Kisses (1993) – Type O Negative
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Brings consensual sex back to Catholic Vampirism for a moment. An early sign of hope from an impressive guy who died God-fearing and ashamed.
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The Big Shave (1967) – Martin Scorsese
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Just how many cuts do you need for a final take? Of course the compulsive camera man’s answer is always the same: all of them.
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No Tourists (2018) – The Prodigy
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“Boom boom tap, boom boom tap
Boom boom tap, boom boom tap
Tick tick bang, tick tick bang
Tick tick bang”
“No tourists.” “Fuck you!”
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Apocalypto (2006) – Mel Gibson
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This movie is about fear and the end of the world. Knowing how bad history went as a spectator makes it all the more brutal.
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Life of Brian (1979) – Terry Jones
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The crowd-conversation scene needs cutting, other than that it´s still hilarious as a clever compilation of statements and jokes that would never fly today.
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Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) – Peter Mettler
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A traveling documentary that trips itself into worlds of abrasive escapism, social warp and the terrified hope that sense can be made out of life.
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PHYSIOWÖHRL’D – Berlin, Germany
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Nice and helpful personnel that patiently awaits for an unprepared, ill-backed customer to change his distant shoes into flip-flops while romancing pain goodbye.
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Dortmunder U – Dortmund, Germany
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Internally imposing building that towers itself up and down under vertical vertigo laws and cancer-inducing forced perspectives. Please no more writing on the wall.
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Wicked Game (1990) – David Lynch
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The original music video for this palatable song featuring a clothed and colorless Chris Isaak interlaced with thermic Sailor and Lula scenes burning the film.
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Wicked Game (1989) – Chris Isaak
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Laid-back melancholy song that sounds the the thresholds of discomfort by surfing the pleasure-pain coast around waters of remorseful memory, hope and desire.
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The Return of Bruno (1987) – Bruce Willis
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An album title that brings at least two questions to mind with a cover photo showing a two-faced Bruce Willis that we still trust.
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Café Orange – Bonn, Germany
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For the elevated of mind and intentions who needs the hiding sanctuary for the tiny-tabled big minds looking for a way out of slavery.
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James Hetfield (2016) – Joe Rogan Experience #887
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Never thought I´d hear Metallica´s lead singer talk about bees for so long and not wish him to get into rock & roll stories already.
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Bonn – Germany
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Former German capital and present world capital for Beethoven-derision whom the locals insist in ignoring. The grass elsewhere stays always both greener and disgraceful.
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The Doors (1967) – The Doors
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The doors of perception being set on fire, kicked-in and entered. There’s worlds of dare inside. You can now kiss the old-you goodbye.
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Kurt & Courtney (1998) – Nick Broomfield
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Far-out, paranoid conspiracy theory trip forced into an almost planted veracity that entertains but carries itself with bad taste and disrespect for the dead.
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Twin Peaks (1990-1991) Season 2 – David Lynch
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Lara Flynn Boyle becomes Lauren Bacall. Crazy fun turns into worlds of just fucked up. Character morphing on and on…plus a polite Klaus Kinski.
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Resident Evil 7 VR (2017)
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The brief, bone-deep peaceful impact from the Southern-afternoon prelude-stage between lolling trees and tall weed alone: made the game live forever more.
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Natural Born Killers (1994) – Oliver Stone
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Aggressive satire, dense with primary feelings & snake venom. A mordant mosaic of cinematic formats squirming linearly where murder is pure and helicopters aren´t deployed.
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Trama! (2014) – Juggernaut
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The Italian mob martian-marching towards an omni-phoebian FF8500-sunset, hexadecimally trance-dancing together with every goddamn culture in the world in absolute merriment.
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“If There is Something” (1972) – Roxy Music
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Starts out convivial and inviting until it directs its opposing magnets against the nucleus of Earth repelling itself “upwards“ towards the vacuum of the universe.
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First Blood (1982) Retrospective / Review (2017) – Oliver Harper
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Thorough and entertaining film reviews from a perspective so enthusiastic that makes it hard not to smile in approval. Very well researched and structurally executed.
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Schultheiss Pilsener – German Beer
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Strange to consume a product not trying to get the buyer with sex appeal but by applying peer pressure from a secret society member recruiter.
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iPhone-Compatible Ear-Buds – DAREYOU
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No real advantage in not needing a 3.5mm jack to lightning converter since these “work” only while wired AND Bluetooth “connected“. Thanks but no thanks.
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) – Stanley Kubrick
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Hot cold take on rusted shut adults who were shortchanged with mild kicks after textbook-“making it.” Kidman glows hellenic at the rainbow‘s remote end.
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Heaven & Hell (1979) – Black Sabbath
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A hungover but not less able Black Sabbath playing with the official replacement in Ozzy Osbourne´s presumably wishful funeral without anger or Schadenfreude (again, presumably.)
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“White Album” (1968) – The Beatles
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A clown car-supernova filled with brilliant ideas silhouetting unusually shifting times. This is what happens when you give recreational drugs to the right people.
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Swarm! (2006) – Torture Killer
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Wishing your enemies painful death is not the same as killing them. Thinking is no doing and thinking is needed to get better things done.
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Twin Peaks (1990-1991) – David Lynch, Season 1
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Although visuals are sound and sensual, one still needs a cotton ball-silent approach to acclimatize to this cold-wooded dreamworld that time-stretches disbelief.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) – Clint Eastwood
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Very special film about a murder case taking place in the Savannah-wilderness where mescaline goes with the wind in mystic Voodoo rhymes. Seek guidance.
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Use Your Brain (1995) – Clawfinger
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Lots of self-explanatory social anger coming from a revengefully explosive vantage point of riff. An undetonated influence to a whole Nu-market that imploded.
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Ultra (1997) – Depeche Mode
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A spectral-sounding checkmate-playlist that is sensual and torching at the same intense time, while encouraging self-reflection and flight from glamorous suicidal mildew.
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Dinosaurs (1991–1994) – Jim Henson
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Somehow a much more realistic depiction of family life than all the other human-based sitcoms that canned a whole generation with fake, featherless laughter.
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Chris Farley – February 16 (1964-1997) -25-WR Birthday Toast
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Like a good martyr of God‘s obtuse abundance he forced himself to checkout at thirty-three years of age by gulping up everything he could.
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962) – Blake Edwards
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The pitiful side of alcoholism and the black & white big road of fun that takes one there. Large caliber acting in a tremendous film.
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Groundhog Day (1990) – Harold Ramis
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Define limbo…okay, now redefine it in a commercial 1990´s existential rom-com way with a sexually obtuse female character and a wasted Chris Elliot.
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) – Steven Spilberg (Coincidental Netflix 25-WR)
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“Eight U.S. Army Rangers penetrate German-held territory during World War II to find and bring home a soldier whose three brothers have been killed”
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PJD7720HD – ViewSonic
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Very good DLP Projector that reassures the buyer right away with the remarkable saturation, contrast and brightness of color displayed in the ViewSonics welcome screen.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) – John Frankenheimer & Richard Stanley (Uncredited)
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Giant blimp of dislodged tropical lunacy raining down expensive disaster in the huts & minds of those on screen and behind the scenes. Flop legend.
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Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story (2005) – Brian W. Cook
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A bizarre true-story satellite parasitically surrounding the final years of reclusive director Stanley Kubrick who would no doubt get a kick out of this.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – Michel Gondry
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A visually strong, practically effective piece of subjective cinema by tenderly perpetrating a set of talented men and women asking themselves what happened and why.
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Grace Is Gone (2007) – Jim Strouse
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A very touching account on a family’s reaction to the kind of loss that hammers a basic sense of fairness within shatter-prone human beings.
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Quick Change (1990) – Howard Franklin, Bill Murray
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A clown master class from the all-time deadpan samurai Bill Murray supported by a Kabuki Quaid, a fabulous Gena and an infallible Jason Robards.
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Rebel Meets Rebel (2006) – Rebel Meets Rebel
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A great amalgamation of geographically compatible musical styles and characters bolo-tied together by lust of freedom and charm. A damn shame not to continue.
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) – Mike Nichols
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A gasoline marriage waiting for a young match to come and share their social lubricant. Venomous but loving wit that’s wet with shades of grey.
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The Game (1997) – David Fincher
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A Fincher twister that redefines the Thriller genre and all the limiting expectations that comes with it. Both way ahead, and before of its time.
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25-WR – Poem
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If love is the sugar in life
Then sex is cocaine
And Death healing salt
No more second servings
For dishonest ghosts
That keep resuscitating
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Quarry (2016– ) – Michael D. Fuller, Graham Gordy
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No one will object to the over-tantalization of characters while swimming the oppressive swamps of an ill-sense of memory that is rage-cursed.
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Television Terror (1997) Tales from the Crypt: 02×16
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We all wish assholes a bad day (so do they), but there’s something deep and decent about wanting to save humanity from the true supernatural.
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North by Northwest (1959) – Alfred Hitchcock
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Trains and tunnels rushing for more while baby-blue bullets hide in excitement in hip-held politeness-pistols ready to dust clarity crops with mystery.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
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Harrowing sylvian Ouija-boarding of the mind that genuinely wounded mass audiences everywhere. Less is more when it comes to found footage, though. Avoid sequels.
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Beat (1996) – Bowery Electric
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Beating up song conventions, cutting their bowels open and re-animating curiosity within a single spark to start this nitrous techno-stoner highway-wagon ride.
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Stara Cervisia Shankbier – German Beer
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If you’re going to shank someone out of prison better do it with a knife instead—for this beer wrongs nobody but itself with shyness.
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Every Matthew McConaughey “Alright” in Chronological Order (1993 – 2017) – Owenergy
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One can only be grateful for all the tactful editors out there (such as this gentleman) who refuse to cheapen their videos with additional music.
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The Verdict (1982) – Sidney Lumet
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Last chance for a hearse-chaser to make things right after a punch of clarity connects with his comatose sense of empathy. Newman. Mamet. Willis.
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The Downward Spiral (1994) – Nine Inch Nails
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90´s “The Wall” thanks to a rare glitch in the mainstream that let him do this to us.
One hell of a cry for help.
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Mandy’s – Berlin
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A glorious hole-in-the wall “front” with a “I don’t care if you come-in or not” sign that beckons to Irish irises especially.
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Ride the Lightning (1984) – Metallica
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From electric blue to Sabbath-black, this rabid factory-machine stainlessly steals the motor-breath out of you while chromatically ascending your will to live.
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Adaptation (2002) – Spike Jonze
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The identical twin gimmick works only when there’s excellence en-caged in an actor. Nicolas shines here exemplary carrying and saving an otherwise pretentious film.
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Die Fabrik – baxpax Hotel – Berlin, Germany
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Fantastically quiet and strategically decorated to retain as much of its original industrial charm as possible. Smart, respectful, self-governing staff that treasure it all.
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The War of Art (2002) – Steven Pressfield
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For the closet-slacker that keeps procrastinating to procrastinate. Serendipitous read for those who’ve had enough, but keep pussyfooting around looking in the fucking mirror.
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – The Coen Brothers
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Fast-talking world of abounding opportunities one could grab but only after first figuring out how to get out of the revolving rat-race ring.
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Pacific Brace Shiraz/Cabernet Sauvignon (Year?) – Red Wine
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Laminated with ruby resolutions of grandeur, veiled with a screw-capped scrawny price…but don‘t be fooled: this is quality wine.
Poor man’s daily Ambrosia.
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Relentless (1992) – Bill Hicks
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Beautifully ballsy Bill Hicks lectures us on having nothing but actual hicks to represent us when the flying saucers come size us up and conquer.
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Breakfast of Champions (1999) – Alan Rudolph
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A house-of-mirrors flashback that is presented in full-length dream sequence format adorned with a mental-ward cast that is nothing but wonderful.
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Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton
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A budget-bulged passion package containing tremendous Orson Welles admiration inside, while storytelling the shaky struggling days of a good heart looking for missing talent.
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Review (2014–2017) – Jeffrey Blitz
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Much sexier but not ready to descend all the way down into hell like the Australian source material does. Still hilarious despite excessive self-referencing.
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Small Time Crooks (2000) – Woody Allen
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Starts out with the traditionally hilarious criminal incompetence of “Dog Day Afternoon” (1975) or “Welcome to Collinwood” (2002) continuing with an embroidered “The Jerk“ (1979).
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Symphony No. 3 in E Flat, Op.55 (1804) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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A revolutionary march for social evolution that is heavy with the funerary shaming of false prophets. The turning point of a tectonically shifting sound resolution.
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Tideland (2005) – Terry Gilliam
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A potent and superficially alienating Terry Gilliam gem that parallels in beauty to Igmar Bergman´s Fanny Hoch Alexander (1982) in bringing up mystic childhood voodoo.
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Throw Momma from the Train (1987) – Danny DeVito
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Strangers on a Hitchcock trail of Oedipus-fears unbalancing one another away from the spinelessness they choke with. DeVito and Ramsey shine with tremendous enthusiasm.
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Barry (2018) – Bill Hader
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Slow-developing, but not arrested characters in a dark comedy show where everyone is a character-study in his own right.
It does incrementally improve.
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Beetlejuice (1988) – Tim Burton
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BEETLEJUICE is the American Monthy Python. BEETLEJUICE is an 80’s German Expressionism medallion pierced cleanly by Keaton’s sharp comedic perfection. BEETLEJUICE reads like stereo instructions.
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Museum für Naturkunde – Berlin, Germany
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Fantastic both in essence and intent but somewhat neglected budget-wise. It presents an exhausting amount of research with specimens including breathtaking dinosaur visitor-bait.
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Performs His Own Compositions (2010) – Django Reinhardt
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Jumpy, if not passive-paranoid arrest that´s enshrouded with criminal neuroses that beatify themselves blind with repetition-less ornamentation. Not an interpretation but ivied ranting.
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The Last Detail (1973) – Hal Ashby
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The prospect of prison in the life of an unexperienced young man tends to accelerate the rituals of passage any free person should go through.
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Kill ´Em All (1983) – Metallica
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Masterful rite-of-passage stroke of brilliance by the four young-horsemen of the Apocalypse carrying all the piss, jizz and vinegar in the world.
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Their Mortal Remains (2019) – The Pink Floyd Exhibition
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A royal treatment even for the occasional Pink Floyd tripper. A sating multimedia experience that brings out the colored ghosts to a psychedelic feedback trance.
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Google Keep Mobile App – Google
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Sleek looking in a friendly but very limited way. Clearly not meant for cooperative industrial use… but hey, this is all for free. Be grateful.
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Resident Evil 4 (2005) – Capcom
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Arguably the most fulfilling of the famously fucked up Resident Evil franchise, bringing the shotgun-jizz shooting to a whole different level of unending sociopathy.
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Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism (1879) – Mark Twain
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Yesterday there was no money in jerking the Major Maxillary as a public exhibition; today however, it has become the highest possible form of individualism.
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Russkiy kovcheg/Russian Ark (2002) – Aleksandr Sokurov
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There’s a mastodon-difference between a cam-steadied cut-constricted motion picture such as Birdman (2014) or Rope (1948) and this one which is real.
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Dogville (2004) – Lars von Trier
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An original motion picture with an irresistible trailer and a surefire cast. A great take on our basic humanity and treatment of one another. Outstanding.
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Entrance Poster – Thomas Phillipps
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A sacrificial slave-for-hire posing for their inter-dimensional front door advertisement — posted there to please the Catholic priest inside of all of us.
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Budweiser Lager – Czech Beer
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If American Budweiser is like mating in a canoe, then Czech Budweiser is like the Virgin Mary getting impregnated by the fingering hand of god.
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Heat (1995) – Michael Mann
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Noir-nourished film-feat of testosteroned refinement that tastes blue to the color of gun-metal while blind-swording both organized crime and law enforcement.
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Volcano Digit – STORZ&BICKEL®
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One wonders if Joe would really jump into this Celcius-ed Volcano inside of which stoner-proof, stoner-made engineering burns with precision and might.
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State of Grace (1990) – Phil Joanou
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Gary´s nod to the infamous hellraisers from Irish-Welsh generations past. A testament to a suicidal passion that raises the film above mere circle jerk.
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Good Bye Lenin! (2003) – Wolfgang Becker
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An instant classic for the newly interested or a permanently pleasant surprise for the directly involved. Watch with eyes and ears full of empathy only.
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It (1986) – Stephen King
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Celebrated fictional catalogue of the full spectrum of fears and desires absorbing childhood featuring a commitment-length traditionally popular with religious scriptures and phone books.
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Army of Me (1995) – Björk
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Strong, dramatic sense of urgency that is as grim as catalepsy. A droning hamster-wheel diorama idiosyncratically voiced and tied together by an industrial beat.
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SoundCore Bluetooth Speaker – Anker
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The juicy tones jutting out from the depths of this dark, ergonomic joy-brick are fantastic for a price that doesnt hurt to carry around.
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Wicked Game (1991) – Herb Ritts
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Black volcanic ash and white cotton-clouded highlights blown by mortally sexual palm-tree cuts spilling sweet sepia sap everywhere inside the perpetual voyeuristic frame.
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Jayne Mansfield & Sophia Loren (1957)
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If a single picture representing humanity needed to be sent out to space across stretching chasms of remote stars that aren´t as orphaned as ours…
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Symphony No. 2 in D, Op.36 (1802) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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The ravenous impatience of light and its window-carving blasts frying the insides of the Self and all the dimensions surrounding it with modulated vibrancy.
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Midnight Express (1978) – Alan Parker
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A very stern motion picture warning against obtuseness and corruption not to be taken lightly then and a good idea to tattoo in mind today.
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) – Zack Snyder
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The introduction alone is so consistently overpowering that it could very well serve as a standalone film and a rewatch-classic for the entire genre.
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First Kill (2001) – Coco Schrijber
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The terrible intrusion of war shared and explained by the time-anchored hearts & minds of interviewees who are displaying acute withdrawal symptoms on camera.
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Sunset Boulevard (1960) – Billy Wilder
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Stays enticing and incredibly abducting all the way thorough: from the first killer-shot till the last…from the first viewing to obsessing about it.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) – Paul Schrader
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The tsunami-ing intensity of Japanese culture in a “fissional” example that polishes every single shard coming out of its smashed mirror of a portrait.
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Immortal Beloved (1994) – Bernard Rose
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Ludwig van Beethoven´s life and Zeitgeist crammed in two hours including sex, alcohol and post-Baroque & Roll. An ordinary film with an extraordinary cast.
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) – Paul Mazursky
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What´s in the mind of a man sheltering competing strangers other than the good ol´ Death-wish asking the betrothed to collect their scattered spouses.
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Death to Smoochy (2002) – Danny DeVito
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A vividly-colored dark comedy that gets away with retrofitting collective taboos into sanguine-satire elements affecting and infecting us with massive charm and mischief.
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Dan Carlin (2017) – Joe Rogan Experience #1041 –
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These two major podcasters somehow make a “My Dinner with Andre” (1981) entertainment premise work in ways not imaginable since the pre-TV radio era.
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The Jerk (1979) – Carl Reiner
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You’re not really a jerk unless you actually know better. Hilarious comedy with a ridiculous premise running over a classic storyline with a dirt bike.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) – George Clooney
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Wise men say only fools rush into a dating game show and fall in love with themselves on television—but the wisest run the show.
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The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino
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Haunting downer that sinks deep into disillusionment, betrayal and post traumatic spleen-depression by Russian rouletting us between their past and present like prison toys.
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The Ninth Gate (1999) – Roman Polanski
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Riveting mystery set in motion in modern age-old Europe where everything is still creepy and beautiful. A satanic film noir with an escalating groove.
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Lola Rennt/Run Lola, Run (1998) – Tom Tykwer
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In-motional motion picture with a fluent techno-rhythm and welcomed gimmicks that keep our eyes lubricated, tuned and toned throughout an intense perception-workout.
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Salvation Boulevard (2011) – George Ratliff
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Very serious comical take on a single star system in the disbelief-suspended galaxy of organized religion and their Bonde-esque villains coloring it all.
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Love and Mercy (2014) – Bill Pohlad
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Cusack hasn´t been this good since his own Grace disappeared, but Dano has been trully great for the first time in a permanently resonant film.
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Kaminofen Fire
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Fluffy fire that‘s truly volcanic as well as satanic through the stained-glass trap-door window staving off miniature hell from a German Expressionist mortuary.
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Intro – Mandy (2018)
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It starts out soberly Jacking the King Crimson lumber sap Out of a roller-coasting tree-line that dusks blood red dawns out of Death.
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The Perfect Drug (1997) – Mark Romanek
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Cold plate of vampiric hors d’oeuvres served with visual mastery. Extracts fine things out of Kitsch instead of just swiping them under the bear carpet.
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Nothing but Trouble (1989) – Dan Aykroyd
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This is what happens when cocaine and a healthy budget meet each other, fall deeply in love and decide to make a beautiful baby together.
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Naked (1993) – Mike Leigh
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The smartest people in the world seem to spawn in Manchester. No doubt, a cosmic conspiracy hides behind this preternatural patch of hyper-verbose land.
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Todd Macfarlene‘s Spawn (1997-1999)
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Gory expansion pack to those who’s optical curiosity was originally aroused by the likes of “Do the Evolution” or “Follow the Leader” music videos respectively.
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Magic 1 WiFi – Devolo
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Despite labyrinth-inducing instructions that makes one wonder the universe itself sometimes—this product does indeed deliver the promised internet-signal punch. Use with app.
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Auto Focus (2002) – Paul Schrader
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Careful what you audition for: it might get you in the tightest-spot of a color-blind district that is sharp with double-life contrast.
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Practice What You Preach (1989) – Testament
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It boggles the mind that these gentlemen continue to be perceived as lesser than Anthrax. Trash-talking Testament should be a Thrash-preacher´s pet peeve.
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Gilden – Kölsch
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It delineates itself with self-gilded claims of under-priced excellence out of the proud oceanic pastures of German beer and its default benchmarking mechanism.
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Blood Simple (1984) – The Coen Brothers
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Strong start for one of the strongest creative duos soldered together by nature and tried to be separated by none. A text-book student film.
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Ur-Kostitzer Pilsner – German Beer
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Another round of these heavy-herbies would be too much asking from an arrogant looking Swedish king who no doubt was a closet manic depressive.
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Modern Drunkard Magazine – 25-WR Websites
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The site has a lot good creative energy that glows through preserved jam jars of ideal writing and graphic design. Affirmation for the solitary imbiber.
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A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick
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Impersonal ultra-violence versus institutional, underage debauchery versus systematic adulthood. An excitingly repulsive playground where parents have no idea and the State blurs it all.
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Inherent Vice (2014) – Johnny Greenwood
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A fog encounter in the salty night where songs of all walks of sound take turns to gas the colored lamps glowing the way ahead.
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Male Street Walker – Berlin, Germany
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The visual pun that a resigned man can become is not always easy to watch but definitely easy to photograph and comment later at leisure.
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Steak Mural (2016) Marcus Haas – Berlin, Germany
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Universal eye catcher with stern political connotations that elevate graffiti art into what turn-of-the-20th-century anti-imperialist graphic design still achieves today.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) – Milos Forman
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No need to agree with people’s desires, but to absolutely defend their right to pursuit them and prosper. Bad-taste has a short shell life.
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The Fan (1996) – Tony Scott
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Riveting thriller with a pretty good coverage of superstition and the many types of obsessions that come with it. A summer blockbuster made to last.
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Gone Girl (2014) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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The tarring stains of gone matrimony and the haunting rhythms of burning irreplaceable innocence. Outstanding soundtrack that trumpets pangs of hope between disorienting anxiety patterns.
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Victory at Sea (1952-1953) – NBC
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An astounding set of newsreel-like pieces set in a frantic world-creating pace covering large-scale naval conflicts with nothing but grace and respect.
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Review with Myles Barlow (2008–2010) – Phil Lloyd, Trent O’Donnell
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As dark as allowed, as hilarious as it can be. Should become a welcomed acquired taste for those who first started with the American remake.
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Cocaine Cowboys (2006) – Billy Corben
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A perfect documentary that is put together by guide-listening the direct architects of the subject matter instead of architecting them directly into something else.
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Sid and Nancy (1986) – Alex Cox
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An extraordinary film with an even better cast. Gary Oldman´s true Ludwig van Beethoven performance shining through the life of a talentless but charismatic kid.
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Mandy (2018) – Panos Cosmatos
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A fucking fabulous face – morphing film – feast, that feels like a heavy Ayahuasca trip that will rock and roll you out of your favorite t-shirt.
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Let the Right One In (2008) – Johan Söderqvist
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Sweeter than somber but with a cold, compensating Swedish stroke of resigned-downer that reminds of other movie scenes instead of setting more creative distance.
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Revolver (1966) – The Beatles
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A warm revolver loaded with intense imagination that makes you happy every time you pick it up. It contains Mccartney´s arguably best song: Elenor Rigby.
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Green Apple – Mozart
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Found in an Edeka Supermarket where the greens are redder than everyone else’s yellows and even a simple apple has to stand out. Marketing works.
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Symphony No. 1 in C, Op.21 (1801) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Impetuous kickstart to one of the greatest sound quilts out of this planet of ours. A youthful but articulate jump of joy towards embracing life.
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Hollywood Babylon (1959) – Kenneth Anger
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A morbidly mordant red-carpet bombing campaign with its name-dropping making distant stars fall from the sky like an exquisite rain of grand pianos.
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Beck’s – German Beer
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Germany‘s own Heineken. It floats cocky and everlasting in the international waters of normal beer where a very low consumption temperature is the great equalizer.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Milos Forman
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Don’t deny a man his basic right to have a goddamn beer and watch the game in the completely lucid lunacy of life lived well.
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Into the Wild (2007) – Sean Penn
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The beauty of human flight and the tragic finality of it—a celebration of youth by a very mature director we’ve all seen grow up.
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Le Samuraï (1967) – Jean-Pierre Melville
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French Film Noir smeared in lonely tones and isolated colors showing the flip-side of persecution and its complex perplexities. A memorable existential staring contest.
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Alter Friedhof – Bonn, Germany
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For the romantic hermit that is essentially hobbied at heart—microwaving steady historical isolation with short shocks that light up the whole architectural macrocosmos inside.
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No Country for Old Men (2007) – The Coen Brothers
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Bubonic-plague personified decides to single out the fastest Death-escaping cowboy and wastes no time in hunting him down a road of rural intrigue.
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Elenor Rigby (1966) – The Beatles
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Everybody has some kind of redeeming quality — not unlike this catchy song from the least-liked surviving Beatles member and its absolute but temporary dfghdfh.
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The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick
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There´s a lot of lack of fidelity to source material but the audio-visual aura is enchanting and inviting enough to bounce like a baseball.
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Paths of Glory (1957) – Stanley Kubrick
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A battleground-breaking anti-war, anti memory-loss production that came out only twelve years after the great war cracked the Death atom-nerve open.
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Paradise Lost (1996-2011) – Documentary Trilogy
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A must-absorb exculpatory HBO documentary tryptic that saved the lives and reputations of half of the six direct victims of this multi-slayered crime.
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Lost Highway (1997) – Trent Reznor
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A floating crime scene playlist congealed together by counterclockwise suspense fueling a colorful film noir that is both cosmically weird and dearest to the deranged.
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Army of Me (1995) – Michael Gondry
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Milks the practical effect-cow to its last drop; turns it into oil and the carbon into diamond. All rationally shown in old-fashioned aspects.
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Married with Aliens (1992) Married with Children: 05×07 – Gerry Cohen
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Mad men they lock up, mad dogs they shoot. Rare to find a comedy show not ruined by condescending canned laughter that no one needs.
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Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
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What happens when you give a man with integrity the masked opportunity of minding other people’s business? No need to move to go too far.
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Prehistoric Ice Man (1999) South Park: (02×18) – Trey Parker & Matt Stone
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Hilarious comedy premised on the ridiculous amount of cultural changes happening in the late nineties in a world looking back to a century gone by.
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Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018) – Artic Monkeys
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A post-mortem Bowie knife conniving new generations with tender tantrums for their own wonderful good. A brilliant, dry-clean barbiturate that melts stone-glass ” :
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Box of Moonlight (1996) – Tom DiCillo
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All bets are off when off the grid you go, except for betting on life itself which can look, feel and sound like nothing before.
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The Matador (2005) – Richard Shepard
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Finding true truant-camaraderie in some of the darkest, yet most sought-after corners of this open-bar planet of ours can sometimes be beautiful.
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Blizzard of Ozz (1980) – Ozzy Osbourne
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The Blizzard of Randy Rhodes and the Chris Farley of Heavy Metal (or vice-versa) making the stuff Tenacious D’s wet-dreams are made of.
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Pilot (2008) – Breaking Bad: 01×01
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The colorful reaction from periodically combining the Walter and Jesse elements is the show. We’re the pilot’s helpless copilot in this RV of an introduction.
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Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) – Mike Nichols
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An effective bon vivant in the political realm who’s own mind has become imprisoned in a cell of depleted endorphins finds action in external meaning.
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Donnie Darko (2001) – Richard Kelly
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Suburban black magic that orbits around the interdimensional cellar-portal of a fast-cracking teenage mind that is full of defying questions to colliding answers.
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Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 – Allegro in A (1786) – Wofgang Amadeus Mozart/Horowitz/Giulini
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Rides a hair or two faster than usual but does not in any way feel carousel-led or gone astray in repetitive dactyl derision. Cool.
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – Martin Scorsese
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Rise and fall of the great wall of street Gatsby-ing self-amusedly told in tones that charm and entertain but fail to reach redemption.
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The Tree of Life (2011) – Terrence Malick
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It boggles the mind to see modern beauty so densely packed into a movie-sitting. A transcendental chandelier made out of sweat, tears and chlorophyll.
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Where’s Poppa? (1970) – Carl Reiner
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What do you do when you´ve made it to grownup with a nice girl on the horizon but your mind-molesting mother is still around?
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I, Claudius (1976) – Herbert Wise
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I would give anything to have a time machine for the sole purpose of feeling the rapture of watching this for the first time again.
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Five Easy Pieces (1970) – Bob Rafelson
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Complaining about the wealth you were born with will get you just as much sympathy as a skinny person would while complaining about their weight.
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Rostocker Pils – German Beer
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A liquid copilot that happens to be a good listener and is also noble at heart despite its uncelebrated lineage and obscure shield of arms.
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Chopper (2000) -Andrew Dominik
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What is it about this man who’s constantly welding attention to himself and the things he’s done under a sordid sense of right and wrong?
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Bensburger – Bonn, Germany
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Best brown-bread artisanal hamburgers I’ve had in my lifetime. Period. Immaculate service. Womb-comfy ambiance that would be irresistible if only booze was around.