Tag: WWII
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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
I just saw Godzilla Minus One and it was good. Easily the best kaiju movie that I’ve seen in a long time; mostly the ones I’ve seen have been American takes on the genre. The one I grew up with was the 1998 Roland Emmerich disaster porno, Godzilla, which I mainly remember for all the…
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Oppenheimer (2023)
Now that it’s been released, Oppenheimer feels like such a natural project for Christopher Nolan, a writer/director whose works have always been concerned with concepts. He approaches his stories rather like a theoretical physicist, starting with a baseline of plot and twisting it back and forth across many permutations, dissecting time travel, space exploration, unconscious…
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Sisu (2022)
I just saw Sisu and it was ehhhhhhhh… alright. A war film with an exploitation edge, it struggles to escape feeling Tarantino-lite, with its chapter headings and gore and pulpy characterisation. With Tarantino that works because he’s a genius at what he does, managing to stuff every frame with detail and create a whole film…
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