
Cosmo Bjorkenheim
Movies reviews only
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White Noise (2022) |
Although White Noise has now been filmed, it feels as unfilmable as ever. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Oct 16, 2022
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Shy People (1987) |
A twisted family drama with a dash of the supernatural. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Jan 14, 2020
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Speed (1994) |
While Speed might be a great teaching aid for high school physics, it can also be used to illustrate concepts of 20th-century Western philosophy. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Jul 23, 2019
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I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
As a fabrication of Aubrey's imagination, Dakota is a caricature of the underclass, of the margins of society as a Dantean carnival of vice and anomie. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Jul 23, 2019
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
Eyes Wide Shut has gotten better with age. It was, in Nietzsche's word, untimely; its first audiences failed to understand it, while its real contemporaries had to bide their time. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Jul 11, 2019
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Jawbreaker (1999) |
Jawbreaker is a study of the nature of power relations, a Foucauldian teen comedy that takes positions on sexuality, the criminal justice system, and body image issues. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Jun 19, 2019
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Babylon (1980) |
Babylon has too much to say about keeping your head up when everyone wants to grind your face into the pavement - and to say it with so much heart - to be left in the rubbish bin of history. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Mar 05, 2019
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Between the Lines (1977) |
Films about intrepid reporters are myriad ... but did anyone ever write a screenplay about Wayne Barrett and Robert Christgau's pioneering years at The Village Voice? - Screen Slate
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| Posted Mar 02, 2019
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Knightriders (1981) |
[A] singular combination of medieval fantasy and post-60s rebel mystique. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Mar 02, 2019
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