Wordle 644 3/6
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Wordle 644 3/6
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Wordle 643 4/6
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Which dingus left the house this morning for an important appointment but forgot to bring his phone? This dingus, right here #aside
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Wordle 642 3/6
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> @MacDara #aside
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Wordle 640 4/6
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Wordle 639 4/6
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Wordle 638 3/6
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Wordle 637 5/6
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The Final Cut again, this time at home in 4K. I probably should have noticed before now that Leon echoes Roy Batty’s famous “Time to die” line much earlier in the film. Anyway. Still love it. Its ambiguity remains its greatest strength. I’m increasingly convinced Ridley Scott didn’t understand what he was working with. More…
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This is like an inverse Best Worst Movie: a fairly dull talking-head docu about a rank amateur’s ambitious effort to make a slasher flick that ends up being far better than it had any right to be. More…
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Thirty years ago tonight I saw Vader beat Sting for the WCW World Championship and had a near out-of-body experience. A title change at a house show! And I was there! #aside
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There’s a level of reticence here that I don’t expect from Werner Herzog. Rescued Vietnam War POW Dieter Dengler returns to Laos to recreate the lowlights of his capture while he recounts his experience with all the practised professionalism of a man who’s being doing it for pocket money for a very long time. Perhaps Herzog detected this from the get-go and hoped that Dengler’s immersion in the places where he experienced his greatest trauma would spark something, a tangible reconnection maybe. He says as much in the voiceover, but if it happens, his subject doesn’t give himself away, and Herzog refrains from probing deeper. Dengler’s a person who had to reinvent himself many times over in his life, with the only common thread being his passion for flight; perhaps this was just one more version of himself devised to meet the circumstances. More…
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Some mothers do ’ave ’em! More…
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Wordle 636 3/6
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A punch-drunk James Brolin gets locked in overnight at a department store where they’ve seen fit to let loose a pack of attack dogs for security, for some reason. Exciting premise, mind, despite the significant legal liability issues that arise. But so much of the meagre running time comprises Brolin stumbling about with a concussion and veering from anguish to mild perturbation as the vicious mutts snarl and bark around him, and very little else. There’s more tension in the subplot involving his ex-wife and daughter (and the world’s most accommodating new beau) as they wait at the airport for a flight out of the country. More…
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Wordle 635 4/6
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Cheers to @ThreeCare for breaking SMS on my phone all morning. Not like I need it for work or anything #aside
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Wordle 634 3/6
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Nico Mastorakis does The Crazies as a western. Most of its budget probably went on the (admittedly cool) helicopter chase. That might explain the dire zombie make-up. It doesn’t excuse the dire zombie acting. More…
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Wordle 633 3/6
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Wordle 632 5/6
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Wordle 631 5/6
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Wordle 630 4/6
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Wordle 629 6/6
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Jon Moxley sheds blood in every TV match for weeks to a ludicrous degree, then wrestles Silver & Reynolds and doesn’t give them a drop. No respect #aside
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Wordle 628 5/6
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Wordle 627 3/6
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Sometimes all you need after a long walk in the cold is a 7pm Babybel #aside
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Wordle 626 4/6
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Wordle 625 4/6
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Wordle 624 5/6
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RIP Glen Lockett, aka SPOT. The son of a Tuskegee Airman was the man at the boards for so many of SST’s early landmark releases. The results remain divisive, but unmistakably gelatinous. Count me as a fan #aside
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Wordle 623 3/6
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The new mix of BL’AST!’s Take the Manic Ride sounds pretty great considering. But the biggest difference is they took out that weird monologue where Clifford talks about his dick, probably #aside
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Wordle 622 4/6
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Wordle 621 5/6
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Wordle 620 4/6
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Wordle 619 3/6
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Wordle 618 6/6
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Wordle 617 3/6
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Wordle 616 4/6
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David Cronenberg’s first foray into ‘straight’ filmmaking is at once a warts-and-all love letter to the experience of the drag strip (he’s apparently a petrolhead, go figure), a gritty wannabe conspiracy thriller, and a tacky, sleaze-ball action comedy of the type that was all too common in its era. This was made the same year as The Brood and it rounds out a picture of the director’s, well, not exactly enlightened attitude towards women that certainly tinges his later works in a more sickly light. The stunts are great, though. More…
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Wordle 615 6/6
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Totally watchable but ultimately slight, DVD-extra-standard documentary on Madison, Wisconsin’s most famous landmark. Probably. More…
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Wordle 614 4/6
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Wordle 613 6/6
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Wordle 612 4/6
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Wordle 611 3/6
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Wordle 610 3/6
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I feel this is being mis-sold as a psychological drama as it’s not nearly as harrowing as the phrase implies. Anna Kendrick’s Alice, severely stressed by her manipulative partner, is whisked away to a lakeside house for a friend’s birthday weekend that turns into an intervention of sorts to rescue Alice from her abusive relationship. Theres’s certainly verisimilitude in the choice not to make the bad guy’s behaviour cartoonishly monstrous; he’s the kind of basic controlling arsehole, with that straight-out-of-the-misogynist’s-manual negging shit, that most women lured into such situations would recognise, so I expect that to resonate. But it makes for a film with little in the way of story or drama to sustain feature length. More…
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