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25 August 2007
The Holy Mountain (1973)
As a caveat, I have to say straight up that I often find myself mired in lots of overwhelming questions about “meaning” when it appears to me that something’s intent is the lack of, or intentional removal of meaning from any sort of artistic endeavor. Specifically, I ask: what’s the point?
And okay, I fully concede [...]
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13 August 2007
The Host (2006)
I remember seeing posters for The Host long before it ever came out: a single tentacle rising out of the water holding a little girl up in the air. I knew before hand that it was somehow different, but what I didn’t expect and what I liked most was how utterly pathetic the main family [...]
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6 August 2007
Hot Fuzz (2006)
A bit stylistically annoying, it must be said. I can appreciate a good Michael Bay quick-cut mockery, but the doors and the lockers and everything over and over again… The joke, I suppose, was how damn committed they were to it, re-using the same shot again and again and again for each door knob. But [...]
