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Conan The Barbarian
“What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger” Friedrich Nietzsche This movie is a fragmented broken movie that is as terrible as it is amazing. There are some great setups for scenes, but also a plot so disconnected that it will often leave most viewers wondering what in the world is going on. For the…
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Vampyr
After completing the haunting and masterful Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer decided to venture into a more fantastical story. Originally designed to be a silent film, sound was largely added after-the-fact making this a very dream-like and haunting film that is interrupted by clarifying text-based story descriptions. This makes the movie somewhat difficult to…
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The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin is a dark comedy, detailing loneliness, depression, isolation, and broken friendships. A lot of the film is about how the two main characters, Colm and Padraic, handle their depression and isolation…badly. A lot of the characters’ attitudes about their own declining mental health is summarised by the following lines: PRIESTHow’s…
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
The movie begins with a man flying to the moon in a rocket. He meets several people asking him where he’s from. Venus? Jupiter? “I’m from Earth” the man says before introducing himself as Tony. The men, still believing him to be an alien, understands this name as “Tonik” because any alien moon man wouldn’t…
