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Movies of the Week #10 (2026): Whistleblowers, Existential Jokes, and Generic Nightmares
This week’s movies cover mediated lives, cracked identities, and the shaky line between satisfying pulp and total collapse. The Truman Show still feels soulful in its anxiety about manufactured reality, while Relay, Prodigal Daughter, and The Bluff each deliver partial pleasures without quite transcending their limits. Return to Silent Hill is the clear washout, turning… Read more
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Movies of the Week #6 (2023)
Kurz und Schmerzlos (1998): Fatih Akin’s feature debut is the kind of friendship/mafia movie that felt thematically relevant in the 90s and 00s. Three criminally inclined pals of differing origins in multi-culti Hamburg struggle to find a meaningful way through life, living on the edge of wrongdoing and love (how does that joke go, a… Read more
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