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Nick Leseberg and Iain Campbell
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One of the most amazing and accessible wildlife-watching destinations on earth, the "Top End" of...

German Checkers
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German checkers follows the german rules (link to the rules inside the game). If you look for US...

The Golden Age
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The Golden Age is an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery,...
Fiction

Alternative War
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In Alternative War, former police officer turned investigative journalist James Patrick tackles...
Politics International Relations

Stranger Magic
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Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the...

Australia Local & World News
News and Productivity
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The definite app for following Australian and World news! With Newsfusion Australian News, you'll...

The Knowledge by Squeeze
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Welcome back to the world of Squeeze, a world where previous visitors will find much that is both...
pop

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Lesson of the Evil (2012) in Movies
Nov 15, 2021
Takashi Miike's ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต - which, yes, is every bit as messy and overstuffed as that sounds; though I fear that if this were leaner you could miss out on the finer details like the weird German folklore stuff or the fleshy gun with the talking eyeball. The third act here is better than anything in even ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ด๐บ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ, probably the greatest thing Miike has ever done - just as demented, tasteless, and perfectly staged as reported plus it lasts around a solid, uninterrupted 45 minutes. Simultaneously fun and hard to watch in the sense that you can't believe that not only are they actually going for this, but they're going for it *hard* (given the director, I'd expect no less). I'm confident in saying this has the most straight-up brutal use of the shotgun in film history that I've seen. Hideaki Ito is flawless as this fucked-up closet psychopath who just bleeds raw antihero charisma, this kind of character can tire so easily but him and Miike sell it in full - partly because (and this is one of the things I love most about Miike) there's zero pretension to be found here. The precise type of ethically repugnantly, formally playful, feverish trashy thrills you'd expect out of this are exactly what you get - no clichรฉd moral handwringing or bullshit pulled punches you see in a lot of Western cinema for this genre. This is the real shit, another bonafide cult classic from one of the masters. Plus it's generally bizarre as hell, too.

Crimes and Covers
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Violet Waverly sleuths a Thoreau-ly puzzling Christmastime murder in Agatha Award-winning, USA Today...