Saw this one in a theater, after having won a draw from TIFF - and I'm really sad that many people are not going to have the same experience that I was ever so lucky to have with Disney's shafting this one on over to Disney+. But I think the one thing worth taking away from having seen Turning Red is that as someone who's grown up watching Pixar films for just about my entire life, it feels nice to…
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The Matrix 1999
In spite of wearing its own influences on its sleeve and many countless imitators that have followed, the Wachowskis’ The Matrix is truly a film of its own kind - one that has went on to define its own era and not without good reason. Blending the cyberpunk aesthetic with Hong Kong-inspired action set pieces,…
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The King of Comedy 1982
Funny one day, but I think there's another layer to The King of Comedy that turns it into something scary on the next. But that's all something lying within the premise of the film: a deluded man who desires fame more than anything else, and even then it's also about the circumstances that lead into the creation of a character like Rupert Pupkin. There's no denying that Robert De Niro's performance of the character is both funny and terrifying in…
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Firestarter 2022
Pretty telling how a separate adaptation of Stephen King's brilliant novel seems to have more interest in taking its influence from the original film adaptation, rather than the text itself that'd been laid out on page. That's arguably the worst thing that Firestarter really does, because the moments which center on Charlie in the opening section only seem to be directed like an elongated Stranger Things episode rather than as something with its own distinct identity. But stuff doesn't really…
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Ikiru 1952
(NOTE 12/02/2019): This is not exactly my best writing - as I was only starting to develop my skills as a teenager with writing single paragraph-long reviews, but eventually I plan to write a more detailed review explaining why this is my favourite film of all time to take over this space. I will leave this old review up for keepsakes, but I will also include the new text to be visible first in the foreseeable future.
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