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  • Obsession
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I Love Boosters
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I Love Boosters is an overstuffed, intensely bonkers cornucopia of unbridled creativity, opulent visuals, and high-key hijinks. It's outrageously audacious - and I mean that with the utmost praise possible!

Similar to Sorry to Bother You, writer-auteur-virtuoso Boots Riley delivers an afrofuturistic anti-capitalist critique centered on revolutionary collective action. This time, said messenging is overtly subsumed within the maxed-extraness of a genre-flouting socialist-surrealist sci-fi crime comedy satire.

Seriously, the way that this was unapologetically aligned with radical class consciousness ambitionsโ€ฆ

The Greatest Hits
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I watched this over the weekend with wifey and we both loved it. There's several reasons why this deeply resonated with me on multiple levels, including:

๐Ÿ’ฝ For me personally, this easily has one of the dopest, most eclectic, and most low-key banger-rific movie soundtracks that I've ever encountered.

๐ŸŽง I'll always appreciate a considerate approach to depicting and interrogating trauma. With grace, this film creatively teases out several ways that trauma can impact and haunt and change us, howโ€ฆ

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Obsession
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Desire as violation. Desperate yearning mutated into something parasitic and grotesque. The terrifying realization that being โ€œwantedโ€ and being โ€œseenโ€ are not remotely the same thing.

Obsession is the kind of horror film that leaves you feeling โ€œspirituallyโ€ contaminated. The kind that violently rips through your skin, crawls beneath, and lingers there like rot. The kind that distorts familiar emotional terrainโ€“unrequited love, longing for connectionโ€“into an insidious, uncompromising, waking nightmare.

For me, writer-director Curry Barker achieves cinematic perfection here thanksโ€ฆ

American Psycho
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โ€œThere is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity. Something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparableโ€ฆI simply am not there.โ€

The obscene life and absurd times of a high-functioning psychopath who's progressively losing touch with reality.

Bateman's hedonistic world is defined by superficialโ€ฆ

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Titane
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Idk, man...I legit don't know what I just saw. ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜’

I'm jealous that so many people are able to enjoy this. For me, though, Titane's particular blend of batshit, bizarre, and bewildering elements didn't resonate with me.

At no point was I bored, but there were moments of exasperation. I don't think it's "bad," but I was glad when it was finally over.

I don't hate it. I feel...nothing. I'm utterly indifferent. This wasn't for me. And my indifference is to the point that I don't even care enough to attempt to articulate why it didn't work for me.

๐ŸŒŸHorror Gorge Month 2021๐ŸŒŸ

They Cloned Tyrone
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If the distinctly Black inspiration behind Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, Jordan Peele's Get Out, and Malcolm D. Lee's Undercover Brother had a passionate tryst and made a cinematic lovechild. ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฟโœจ

They Cloned Tyrone blesses us with an ideal blend of Black humor, Black ingenuity, Black existentialism (defined within the oppressive confines of white hegemony), and conscious Black "drapetomania."

Unapologetically Black and FUBU as fuck. Definitely Tupac's "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." type energy insofar as there being ample nuances,โ€ฆ