Dogtooth is a strange case. The movie is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos who also directed “Killing of a sacred deer” and “the lobster ”. If you have seen any of those films then you would know what you are in for. His films are not strange in the traditional way. Where absurd imagery and a […]
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The word outsider is being used to an extreme degree at this point. More and more works seem to invoke this specific word. Most of, if not all of these works are about, you guessed it, people feeling like outsiders in one way or another. However, I have reached my limit in how much I
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We live in a shallow world, full of preconceived notions, prejudice, bias, and ugly thoughts about other people based on very little (if any) information. Values like kindness and happiness are not valued at all. The things that matters are success and money. How many expensive things can you collect in your life before the
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It feels like everything being made today is bad, or at least worse in terms of quality compared to just a couple of years ago. My average score for movies I consume has dropped off these past couple of years. I struggled to even go to the movies these days. I think there are a
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I have once again lost my mind in a futile pursuit of something everybody else would deem as “not important”. See, I have this love/hate relationship with the concept of genre or should I say hate/hate, for the concept of genre is totally removed from common logic. A genre is defined as “a style or
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Aku no Hana (The Flower of Evil) is an anime that garnered a lot of controversies when it first aired in 2013. It would seem most people have forgotten about it over the years and that is a shame. Aku No Hana is one of the most unique, interesting, and best Anime I have ever
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Is the book always better? Can you ever adapt something fully? Why are people so obsessed with adaptations? Why are video game movies always so bad? All these questions and more will be answered in this post on adaptations where I will be laying out how to do it well, and how to do it
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What makes something generic? It’s easy to see when something is bad or good, but how do you identify what makes something generic? If people asked you about a particular movie you could say it was good or bad, but most often than not people would say “eh” or “it was fine” these are phrases
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There is so much to do and so little time! If you are anything like me (and I hope that you are not) you find yourself with a feeling of being overwhelmed by the many options in entertainment. This sinking feeling of dread and stress appears when you are faced with the realization that you
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Reviews are a strange phenomenon to me. There seems to be an abundance of them, and they garner a lot of controversies, yet also remain totally arbitrary and sometimes downright useless. This post is going to be about reviews both in a professional and amateur sense. I am going to look at why they exist,
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