AFlickering
Celluloid Junkie
Member Since: 26 Feb 2007
Location: Stoke on Trent, UK
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Giant Robo the Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1992) - Rated 13 Jun 2025
"feels like an adaptation of a formative revisionist comic, taking a classically goofy, deliriously nonsensical superheroes and supervillains story and injecting it with sombre post-nuclear angst. you can find in it a throughline from feuillade, lang and godzilla all the way to the iron giant, watchmen and x-men. unfortunately, while the tension between pulp and art is thrillingly taut at first, plot starts to take over and with it so does the pulp, exposing that it was in fact better at the art."
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (2011) - Rated 29 May 2025
"i'd still like it if it were just the mature low fantasy drama its humble beginnings suggested, but i underestimated the scope, unhinged energy and sheer emotional force of this thing until i was already under its spell. it looks upon an entire history of female suffering, with a particular focus on the persecution of witches, and via relatably hopeless acts of individual self-sacrifice it offers forth an astonishingly ambitious alternative i found extremely therapeutic and mindset-altering."
Daan gyun naam yu (2011) - Rated 24 May 2025
"don't stop here, the sequel is the GREMLINS 2 of romantic comedies."
The Job Lot (2013) - Rated 05 May 2025
Erased (2016) - Rated 21 Apr 2025
Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything (2020) - Rated 20 Apr 2025
Friday Night Dinner (2011) - Rated 07 Apr 2025
"i didn't realise how much i needed mark heap's persona from JAM transposed into a sitcom setting. ritter very good too."
Yarn (2020) - Rated 31 Mar 2025
"glorified j-drama slop."
Technoboss (2019) - Rated 31 Mar 2025
"hope more of the JOHN FROM fans get around to this, it's real fun. nicolau strikes me as sort of like kaurismaki by way of moullet?"
Spree (2020) - Rated 31 Mar 2025
"i was expecting something like NERVE meets NIGHTCRAWLER, but the film it actually reminded me of the most was THE DIRTIES. tonal control is all over the place--at times its satire is beyond cartoonish, then suddenly it'll revert to queasy realism, and i think this is rooted in confusion about what they're trying to achieve--but the best scenes did have me grinning with their grotesque yet on-point skewering of influencer culture."
