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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".
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I saw an interview where Quentin Tarantino praises the 1980 Hitchcockian Brian De Palma film Dressed to Kill. And now after actually watching it myself, I can totally understand why.
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Being almost a parody of Hitchcock, Dressed to Kill is a directing masterpiece. The way the camera is used in this film is so fucking good I was literally yelling at the screen while watching "this is so fucking good".
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Obviously since it is not a Hitchcock movie and since it wasn't done during the code, and instead was done when R-rating was a thing, the movie can dare to show way more sex and way more violence. We get a pussy closeup in the opening sequence. And yet de Palma doesn't go too raw on any of the sex or violence. He approaches all of it with an insane cinematic flourish. So many good shots. So many good edits. So much good film-making.
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The film has actors, but it is not about the actors. It is all about the god-damned director. The whole film is one big directing muscle flex for de Palma. Like yeah, the story is kind of good. But it's not designed to be just told. It's designed to be cinematically presented. It would not make for much just talking about the story. Without the directing, the story is kind of pointless.
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I really liked this movie and will definitely re-watch it later. Many times.
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Happy Hacking!!!
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The poseur of Last Night in Soho
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Last Night in Soho depict horrifying imagery not so much through gore, the primal horror, more so from the traumatic past. It deals with the less so appealable aspects of the Swinging Sixties. The thriller is used more as a hook, to lure in audience to a film, mostly dissecting and understanding the spirit of the 60s.
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So Did Avatar 3 Use AI?
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While James Cameron has denied that Avatar 3: Fire and Ash used any generative AI. On January 24, 2026 Joe Letteri ( the visual effect supervisor from Weta Digital ) sat with the Corridor Crew for their weekly show of VFX Artists React where he said that the facial animation for the hero characters for both Avatar 2 and 3 involved a neural network. A neural network? Isn't that a fancy way to say "AI"?
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Alien VS Predator 2004 is a Predator 2 sequel
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In my Predator 2 review I observed that the merger of Alien and Predator franchises was not a Paul W. S. Anderson's ( the director of AVP ) fault, since even that movie already had a lot of Alien references in it, including a Xenomorph scull. So it was almost expected by this point that the next movie in the franchise would feature Xenomorphs.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 is how you make a feminist film
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At one point in time ( roughly before Tarantino ) Shane Black was the hottest writer in Hollywood. He wrote stuff like Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero ( the man is obsessed with Last anything ). And his Last film before he recovered from Tarantino induced depression and returned to the scene with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was the 1996 movie he wrote for director of things like Cliffhanger Renny Harlin The Long Kiss Goodnight, starring Harlin's wife at a time Geena Davis.
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Ultraviolet 2006 is my guilty pleasure movie
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With 9% Rotten Tomatoes score 2006 Kurt Wimmer film Ultraviolet starring Milla Jovovich cannot possibly be any good, can it? Well I re-watched it for this review and while I somewhat see where the critics are coming from, I also have enjoyed the hell out of it.
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Caught Stealing 2025 is a bit dark for a comedy, but way too bright for Aronofsky
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Vincent D'Onofrio pops up on my radar lately. I somehow get attracted to the same movies as the actor, which probably means that I need to review Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick, where D'Onofrio had his, probably, most iconic role. In any case D'Onofrio played an Ashkenazi Jewish gangster motherfucker in a Darren Aronofsky 2025 film Caught Stealing. Something that I had to see, just based on the absurdity of it.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 or the pioneer in ultraviolence
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If today we have a lot of films to choose from when we want to shock ourselves beyond believe: from barely serious, yet distrusting films by Eli Roth through intense hyper-violence by Coralie Fargeat or depressing looks at the world by Lars Von Trier all the way to deranged films like The Serbian Film, in 1970s you had probably only one true contender for such a level of derangeness. And it was the Tobe Hooper's 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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Machete 2010 is about US politics of 2025 somehow
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An exploitation film is a film that exploits some talked about fear or trend in culture in order to sell tickets to a movie that is probably not very good. Exploitation films are usually low budget, badly made B-movies, with a certain charm to them, if you like Tommy Wiseau's work. 2010's Robert Rodriguez film Machete is, somewhat of an intentional attempt at recreating the exploitation film phenomenon. Which exploits US politics of 2025, somehow. ( Rodriguez must have a time machine somewhere in his studio ).
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Mindlocking Trickery of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes
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Pairing a mystery, where each clue matters with a director behind Revolver, where the symbolic meaning of the film is hidden unless the viewer has pen and paper, and knowledge of gematria, and Hebrew. As such, a detective movie, of Sherlock Holmes nonetheless, is quite an invigorating blend.
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Frankenstein 2025 is... wow... just wow!
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Let's get this out of the way: Guillermo del Toro knows how to make a movie. The man is a fucking genius. And yet it seems apart from just being technically proficient, he is also a master of making corruption of the audience emotionally satisfying. Let me explain.
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