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'Pompeii' and eternity.
The mountain lives and breathes in Paul W.S Anderson's Pompeii.

Ben Patten
Oct 12, 20242 min read


'Megalopolis' should come with a question mark attached.
Francis Ford Coppola's final outing is one grandiose question poised to its audience: do you want a garish, experimental utopia? Or do you want movies to stay the same?

Ben Patten
Sep 28, 20243 min read


Twixt: The Great Eulogy
Francis Ford Coppola becomes egoless and creates what is one of cinemas finest digital achievements.

Ben Patten
Sep 23, 20243 min read


Lift: An NFT Movie
Red Notice and The Gray Man have set the standard, and Lift has come in and lowered the ante.

Ben Patten
Jul 12, 20243 min read


Save Me From Miller’s Girl
If you like your Wattpad fan-fictions self serious, pretentious, and barely sexy, you’ve come to the right place.

Ben Patten
Jun 17, 20243 min read


Orion and the Dark: A Kid’s Movie For Werner Herzog
A deeply cynical Kaufman script, a suicidal night-entity, a Werner Herzog cameo, and a scared little boy come together to create the most wistful kids movie since Where the Wild Things Are.
benpattentiktok
Jun 14, 20243 min read


The Tiger’s Apprentice: Bland American Appropriation
The Tiger’s Apprentice is just another example of an American studio adopting East Asian myths to tell dumbed-down, generic stories that seem ingenuine and hollow.

Ben Patten
May 16, 20243 min read
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