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Den stygge stesøsteren (The Ugly Stepsister) [Norwegian with English subtitles]: you've presumably read or seen some version of Cinderella, but not like this. With a synthesizer heavy sound track in a good way, this is extremely comedic but also very gruesome. It's got some 1980s vibes, whether reminiscent of The Company of Wolves (red riding hood) retelling mixed with Jim Henson's The Storyteller, and earlier Peter Jackson gore comedy such as Bad Taste and sprinkle in something similar to The Substance and you'll get something like this I guess? It's hilarious and gory, and very much not about body positivity so much as body horror with a retrospective view of patriarchy and misogyny through the lens of the "male gaze" era when marrying a rich man (or Prince in this instance) might be your only hope of leading a life out of squalor? Apparently Emilie Blichfeldt's directorial debut, but I am guessing everyone will be expecting more awesome productions after having seen this.

Sinners: I saw this in 70mm IMAX film, because I could and I'm not really sure if it needed or benefited from that format particularly? But I also really dislike the Metreon where I saw it. Having written as much, there is one amazing scene in this movie which makes any other downsides forgettable. Sadly, the whole movie isn't like that one scene, and I don't understand why the KKK folks needed to be vampires too? Still, the audience cheered when the Klan head dragon (or whatever they're called) was shot. Vaguely non linear without being confusing, though I don't understand why some things were set when they were. The ending scene also seemed extraneous, but OK. Stick around for a musical number past the credits too. 2 hours and 17 minutes is kind of a long runtime, especially when that 5 minute scene is what made the movie for me, but it's not a bad movie even if it's not entirely my cup of tea.

劇場版プロジェクトセカイ 壊れたセカイと歌えないミク「gekijōban purojekuto sekai kowareta sekai to utaenai miku」aka "Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing" (Japanese with English subtitles): this is clearly marketed at a younger demographic than I am, with most (all?) of the protagonists being high school students basically. Some of them see glitched versions of Hatsune Miku, eventually in "Sekai" (kind of a virtual world? [note: 世界「sekai」is the Japanese word for "world"]) they talk about it with their VR Hatsune Miku, who conjectures maybe it's just some advertising but then some of the high schoolers see less glitched versions of the other Hatsune Miku who is apparently from a different "Sekai" and wants to know how their music connects with people, since she tries to sing and no one hears her. Eventually the other "Sekai" Hatsune Miku goes into the default world "Sekai" and the two Hatsune Mikus meet each other, but then there are shards from the not-connecting to people's Sekai Miku that the high schoolers touch and they are transported into her "Sekai" which is full of darkness and that Hatsune Miku singing through portals which have depressed overworked giving up individuals. Seem confusing? It is! It gets more confusing when that dark "sekai" spills out and suddenly the "default" "sekai" Hatsune Miku goes missing (along with maybe some other "sekai" Mikus we have never seen before until that disaster strikes) but it's all good because eventually all the high schoolers put on performances and everyone gets really excited and somehow the dark "Sekai" Miku is able to finally connect with her troubled individuals and inspire them to not give up and then all the other Mikus are returned to their respective "Sekai"s? Seem even more confusing? It is! But stay after the credits for even more singing. The audience seemed to like it, but there is so much better anime out there I wouldn't even know where to begin with recommendations because almost everything else I have seen is more my cup of tea. Even Kaiju 8 (which I watched earlier this week theatrically) which is basically just a compendium/compression of some TV episodes into a movie theater feature length format seemed more coherent.

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