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  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 2019

  ★★ Rewatched by lunga 10 May 2020

  Can you believe this film expects us to accept being temporarily transmuted into a goat as a fitting punishment for fucking genocide??? Then they have a wedding minutes after that deranged queen massacred an already fleeting population of fairies??? And...the Captain/General who was at the forefront of this massacre is now flirting with one of the fairies??? C'mon Disney...

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  Kiki's Delivery Service 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by lunga 29 Jul 2021

  Happy 32nd birthday to my favourite film of all-time.

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  Song of the Sea 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched by lunga 11 Jul 2021

  "Wow... that was so beautiful... Academy Award"

Popular reviews

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  Justice League Dark: Apokolips War 2020

  ★ Watched by lunga 05 May 2020

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  What a load of shit. This is my biggest problem with this latest string of DC animated films - they disregard the source material to point of these adaptations being unrecognisable from their comic counterparts, and even that would be fine if these were intricately structured stories that are driven by character arc rather than plot.

  The idea that explicitly depicted violence is an important element for mature, undraped and raw storytelling is a fallacy and this film proves that.…

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  Burning 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched by lunga 02 Apr 2020 5

  This film so tactfully castigates its
  audience on being unwitting or rather oblivious perpetrators of a patriarchal system that enable predators to (disproportionately) get away with their crimes. When Hae-mi goes missing, the constructs of her being are used to dispell any suspicion that something bad may have befallen her, and it works. It works because like Hae-mi, the audience is lulled by Ben's charismatic personality and uninterested in seeing anything else in him.

  Although the film leaves most of…