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Good old fashioned (as in 90s) style epic blockbuster. A bit period drama, war movie, weepie, monster movie. Classy. Def better than the new kong vs godzilla one too.

I paid 35. The 45 seats were a no. I like him but its more often just that i like the gear he uses. Actually I cant make up my mind whether i think hes genuinely great or what. But its prob a semi nostalgia thing for me, as much as he doesnt do straightforwardly retro stuff. Otoh, The uncut gems...

saw him at the royal festival hall earlier tonight. visually it was crap tbh, some really lame projections going on behind him. expected a bit more from him. but it sounded great.

I hated all becks rapped songs. Prob wouldnt mind them now but they were so awful at the time. Didnt think much of tricky back then either initially, thought his music was rhythmically feeble or sonically emaciated and later realised i was half right, half wrong. But mainly my hatred was because...

https://www.westsideseattle.com/robinson-papers/2024/03/22/dropping-needle-shaping-culture-manipulating-billboard-charts Maybe related. Long af but interesting piece on how billboard's charts no longer include indie store sales and maybe worse how one company is buying up a lot of American media.

In Berlin earlier this year this middle aged (prob older actually) guy behind the counter at a currywurst place was playing all this banging German dance pop, which was like gabba but brilliantly crafted pop songs. Unfortunately this was the night i left my phone at the hotel so i couldnt...

https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/29/meek-mill-denies-gay-diddy-lawsuit-rumors-allegations/ https://imagez.tmz.com/image/86/4by3/2024/02/28/86f0501a8d7244549b46ca9de413dfb3_md.jpg not posting this for the gossip interest (though there is that), more that its interesting to see whether this will be a...

rap needs lana del ray to do a rap album.

makes me think of what kanye was doing on life of pablo.

new eno documentary sounds interesting - https://thequietus.com/articles/34001-brian-eno-documentary “Why do films have to be the same every time?” asks Gary Hustwit, as we sit in a dressing room backstage in a Copenhagen theatre at the documentary festival CPHDOX. “The idea of film as this...

surely these are recent hot button/trendy topics in film classes? dont think this was really that big of a thing when i had a film module as part of my degree in the late 90s. there was a module you could do IIRC, but it wouldnt have cropped up as often as i imagine it would do today. most older...

i like the new idles album. nothing fancy, quite dumb in places, but still very good and intense. the production is a bit more finessed than what i expected from them too.

i think the idea used to be that no apparent newness = no sales = no money made, etc. im not sure that holds really now. anything old was way outside the mainstream. all that matters now is that its recently been created, not whether it sounds all that new (but obv it shouldnt sound totally like...

most of the new arthousey films ive seen have all been dissapointing on some level. samsara - this made me decide slow cinema is just not something i care about anymore. some beautiful imagery, but amateur acting/scripting, somewhat dull/uninteresting anthro POV, and a two part structure that...

most of the rap i like is either 90s-rooted (though not replicating) stuff like armand hammer. or ten-15 year old stuff like early young thug, migos, future, kanye. maybe there is good stuff still out there, i just dont know about it. but i suspect its in dribs and drabs or at the most micro...

Glazer made a mistake in trying to act like the film was designed to be a metaphor for other murders. Even if that was the plan or intent, i dont think the film really stands up like that. His speech was also kind of messy (not surprising as hes best at images, not messages). That aside, ppl...

If he really wanted it to be a film on ordinary ppl ignoring atrocities, then focusing on a high ranking nazi doesnt seem the best way to do it. An ordinary German family in auschwitz would have been a better choice. And the holocaust is so loaded, why not do it on the uk coast, against a...

https://lwlies.com/articles/zone-of-interest-oppenheimer-genocide/

i really want to see the sweet east.

The main issue for me is it sticks to studied Kubrickish sparsity, thinks thats enough, and doesnt actually take any risks in steering away from it. Its just cold, clinical stuff that like a modern art piece sounds best in the blurb than the actual work itself. That said lol it did make me think...