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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.