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nyxvuxoa · 11 months

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Taylor Kitsch as Ray Jackson 21 Bridges | dir. Brian Kirk

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hedleylamarr · 1 year

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1917 (2019).

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yellow3xo · 30 days

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Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (2019) Dir. Quentin Tarantino

Margot Robbie | Leonardo DiCaprio | Brad Pitt | Margaret Qualley

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gmzriver · 1 year

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 month

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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Jojo Rabbit walks a delicate line. One scene is laugh-out-loud, darkly comedic. The next is soul-crushing. When you look at it on paper, it shouldn’t work. On the screen, it’s memorable, tender, hilarious and insightful - a picture like none other. There are some who will find it tasteless but for the rest, it's one you'll be compelled to revisit.

In the final years of WWII, Ten-year-old Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) dreams of serving in Nazi Germany's army like his absent father. While at Hitler Youth Camp, Jojo follows the advice of his imaginary best friend, a child’s rendition of Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi). After an accident cripples him, he is sent back home. There, he discovers his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is harbouring a Jewish teenaged girl (Thomasin McKenzie).

This film excels at exposing the hypocrisy of the propaganda necessary to keep the Nazi machine (and similar systems) going. Jojo is only a child and even he has difficulty understanding how Elsa can be a demonic creature with horns and wings that drinks blood and can mind control good German boys, is cripplingly fascinated with shiny things and also an enemy the Nazis will easily eliminate. To him, she looks just like a normal girl. None of the interactions they have confirm her as dangerous.

The characters of Elsa, Jojo and his mother are all played relatively straight. Everyone else is a living contradiction. Rebel Wilson plays Fräulein Rahm. Despite being unmarried, she boasts having given birth to 18 children for Germany. How that’s possible, who knows. Her unreleting enthusiasm for the Nazi cause is bizarre considering her job at the Hitler Youth camp is to teach the girls there to dress wounds, take care of the injured… and have children. Not particularly exciting compared to the boys, who get to play with live munitions and enjoy the outdoors. The next noteworthy contradiction within the film is Nazi Germany’s attitude towards children. We’re told they’re the future, that the world will belong to them but as the tide of war shifts, we see the kids become be extremely disposable in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it bit of off-sceen gruesomeness. The whole thing is topped by Taika Waititi’s portrayal of Hitler. Self-described as a Polynesian Jew, even if Waititi wasn’t directing and writing, his casting would feel like a smart, subversive inside joke. As the film begins, this Adolf Hitler is Jojo’s best friend. Once the boy starts questioning what the authorities have been feeding him, Hitler becomes increasingly hostile and comical. He’s more “so pathetic you’re glad you can laugh at him” than “funny because it’s so wrong to see Hitler doing this” kind of funny.

Lest you think this film does not take what happened during WWII seriously, understand that key scenes make you forget all about the fanciful imagination of Jojo’s world and bring you back to reality. The scenes with him and his mother, for example, are surprisingly grounded. You can feel the exhasperation Rosie must feel as her son makes all of these statements about Adolf Hitler, the Nazi cause, Jews and Germany. How frustrating it must be for her to endure what she hears. She could tell Jojo what the truth is, but he's a child. He doesn't understand what's really going on and doesn't understand that admitting the truth out loud could have serious consequences.

Though there are some big, memorable laughs within Jojo Rabbit, the dramatic revelations are so sobering that the drama/comedy split doesn't feel like it's down the middle. Said revelations only come in during the latter half of the movie, however, so they hit you when you least expect it - and hit you hard. This is not the kind of movie you easily forget precisely because it makes bold, bizarre-sounding choices. Though there is a chance you'll be so off-put by "Jojo Rabbit" that it won't be your cup of tea, every move that's being made has been carefully considered and the themes used throughout make it a picture I don't hesitate to recommend. (February 10, 2023)

#Jojo Rabbit #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Taika Waititi #Caging Skies #Christine Leunens #Roman Griffin Davis #Thomasin McKenzie #Rebel Wilson #Stephen Merchant #Alfie Allen #Sam Rockwell #Scarlett Johansson #2019 movies #2019 films

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pricelesscinemas · 7 months

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#letterboxd #movie #movie review #movie reviews #movies #movie recommendation #movie recommendations #review #reviews #uncut gems #safdie brothers #the irishman #martin scorsese #fish #2019 movies

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sweet-heart-jack · 1 year

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I'm watching Daybreak and I wanna start writing fanfics for it because there are literally not that many fanfics for the show

#josh wheeler #Daybreak josh #colin ford #2019 movies

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cloudtinn · 1 year

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Portrait of a lady on fire/ Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019), dir. Céline Sciamma.

#movies #portrait of a lady on fire #celine sciamma #cinematography #french cinema #film stills #films #2019 movies #lgbt romance #romance #the female gaze #every frame a painting

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littlesugarwords · 2 years

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nyxvuxoa · 11 months

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21 BRIDGES 2019 | dir. Brian Kirk

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movieseverymonth · 1 year

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Midsommar (2019)

dir. Ari Aster

#midsommar #2019 movies #movies #cinemetography #florence pugh #will poulter #jack reynor #bjorn andresen #william jackson harper #vilhelm blomgren #horror #suspense #folklore #sweden #halloween

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cressida-jayoungr · 10 months

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Warning: (Non-explicit) blood below the cut!

One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

Ready or Not / Samara Weaving as Grace

The things I do for this blog! I am really, really not a horror fan--far too squeamish. But I was curious about this dress from @coeli1000's description of it when she recommended it to me. Plus, the top image in this post did look pretty badass! So I went ahead and rented the movie, and I at least found that it had enough dark humor in it to keep me entertained.

The story concerns a young woman who finds out that the family she's just married into have a strange ritual that involves her having to survive a night of being hunted across their estate. So she runs around in the wedding dress for the whole movie, and it gets very messy by the end. One sleeve gets ripped off to serve as a bandage when her hand is injured, for example. By the end of the movie, it looks like this:

#ready or not #wedding costumes #samara weaving #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #2019 films #2019 movies #2010s fashion #2010s style #wedding dresses

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gmzriver · 1 year

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 months

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Doctor Sleep (2019)

Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shining 40+ years in the making. Taking its cues from the follow-up novel by Stephen King and the Stanley Kubrick classic, it’s a different but robust sequel nonetheless. Rather than try and recreate what worked about the first film (an impossible task, the 1977 horror classic is a one-in-a-million kind of movie), it tells its own story while paying homage to its predecessor and giving the fans what they want to see. Yes, it’s long at 152 but there’s an even longer director’s cut I’d love to visit sometime.

31 years after escaping the Overlook Hotel, Dan "Danny" Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is haunted by childhood trauma and struggles with alcoholism. When a young telepathic girl named Abra Stone (Kyliegh Curran) reaches out to warn him of a group who “Shine” and feed upon people with psychic abilities, he chooses to work with her to stop them.

Unlike The Shining, Doctor Sleep isn’t a horror movie. It’s more of a drama/thriller, with action-y bits coming in the later half and some horror sprinkled on top. For a good chunk of the story, we’re following a traumatized, ruined Danny Torrance trying his best to hold at bay the lingering ghosts of the Overlook Hotel while getting over his addiction, finding his place in the world and befriending Abra. There’s a lot of great material as Danny talks to his AA group about the way he relates to his father more than ever now that he is also a prisoner of the “demon in a bottle”. The way he and Abra’s childhoods differ make for great character-based moments.

And then come Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) and the members of the True Knot cult. If there’s one area where the film bites off more than it can chew, it’s with the villains. There are too many of them and several wind up being nothing more than generic baddies but otherwise, they’re the kind of villains you love to hate. As Rose the Hat puts it, the “steam” they steal from other shiners tastes best when the victim is young, terrified and in pain. If seeing kids die is something you can’t handle, know that writer/director Mike Flanagan has no mercy regardless of his characters' age.

The members of the True Knot gang who are fleshed out make for great, complex characters. One of the best examples is Snakebite Andi (Emily Alyn Lind). Under normal circumstances, she would be heroic but when she joins a group of psychic vampires who prey on children just so they can expand their lifespans… the support your initially support for her evaporates. These vampires act high and mighty but when it comes down to it, they’re just as prone to petty emotions as the rest of us, which makes every victory Dan and Abra score feel extra good.

So far, none of this sounds anything like The Shining. Psychic vampires? That’s far removed from a haunted hotel. You’re right, but Doctor Sleep makes it fit. It isn’t merely people that can shine; it’s the dead - such as the ghost from Room 237 - and places - like the Overlook - too. What we thought was a haunted building is actually much more and if that makes you wish we could get just one more look at that iconic location, the film obliges. This is where it feels most fanboy-ish, as we get pretty much every single prop and shot recreated: the blood flowing from the elevator, the twins, the tricycle down those corridors with the weird carpet, etc. Before we start docking points, however. I’d like to see anyone who didn’t want - even a little bit - to see the Overlook again. That's what I thought.

What makes these references and recreations work is how well they’re done. We see Dan confront Lloyd (Henry Thomas), who says he’s merely the Overlook's bartender but looks strikingly like Jack Nicholson. It isn’t an exact match (obviously) but even this inconsistency works. It’s a twisted memory, a ghost held captive by the Overlook looking to use a familiar image against the now grown boy who narrowly escaped its clutches years ago. The resemblance is so uncanny and the flashback and callback scenes so well done (Alex Essoe does a spot-on impersonation of Shelley Duvall) they don’t feel self-indulgent.

While we didn’t need Doctor Sleep, Stephen King felt the characters were worth returning to. Based on this effort, it’s hard to disagree. This sequel is telling its own story AND giving us more of what we enjoyed before. The performances are strong, the characters compelling and the callbacks are so well done that it makes the overlong running time feel… merely long. (December 17, 2021)

#Doctor Sleep #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Mike Flanagan #Stephen King #Ewan McGregor #Rebecca Ferguson #Kyleigh Curran #CLiff Curtis #2019 movies #2019 films

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shinigami-striker · 3 months

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Dragon Ball Super: Broly | Tuesday, 01.16.24

On this day, Dragon Ball Super: Broly premiered exactly five years ago in North America, courtesy of Funimation (though it marks one of the last English dubbings in the franchise to feature controversial voice actor, Vic Mignogna due to sexual harassment allegations surrounding against him following the film's premiere in theatres and before Chris Ayres' death in October 2021).

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supernightboy08 · 1 year

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Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019) Title Card

#godzilla king of the monsters #godzilla kotm #kotm #godzilla movies #Godzilla #monsterverse #2019 movies #2019 #screencap #legendary godzilla

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