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@hochirin.bsky.social
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Para-bureaucrat. Infrastructure respecter. Multicultural democracy enjoyer. 🆓🇵🇸. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
just watched Doesn't quite reach the original's heights and too often too cute by half, but still a very fun time
Scream 2 (1997)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
just watched Surprisingly tender, extremely Canadian, extremely Gen-X. It's the Craft, Canadian and about sisterhood and then with a wild, but totally congruent tonal shift into a very effective horror film in the back third.
Ginger Snaps (2000)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
watched earlier incredible pairing with Alex Cox's Walker. Several scenes where the characters directly explain that the cannibalism is a metaphor for America with a big ole American flag waving behind them (laudatory)
Ravenous (1999)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
just watched a few flashes of brilliance, especially in the last stretch, but a very clear example of how a video game narrative cannot be transliterated 1:1 into film
Return to Silent Hill (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
was sat earlier unfortunately, after months of anticipation, this didn't quite do it for me. not nearly empathetic enough and doesn't quite capture the thematic depth of the two best PWSA REs (3 & 5) - but incredible craft - a killer first 1/3rd, soundtrack whips, FPV segments💯
Resident Evil (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
just watched Really cool bit of the sci-fi canon - iterates on Star Wars with a noir-political thriller-space opera pulp adventure; very clear throughline to Gundam and Macross, which members of this team went on to do next
Crusher Joe (1983)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
watched earlier in anticipation of Cresident Evil Great gender politics. Cregger absolutely has the juice
Barbarian (2022)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
just watched Didn't quite catch me, but very cool to see everything here that inspired a decade of action and sci-fi and then so much early video game history Didn't expect to see Ernest Borgnine twice in a row this weekend
Escape from New York (1981)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Watched earlier An incredible bit of precision engineering to get half the town's minor and major domestic dramas tangled into the bank robbery. Hits hard right after the Odyssey - taking advantage of people's hospitality as an act of violence against the concept of society
Violent Saturday (1955)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
just got out of a very belated IMAX screening A lot of really cool ideas, a really ambitious work of adaptation. A commendable narrative experience, but fails to ever really gel aesthetically. John Leguizamo the GOAT
The Odyssey (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
watched earlier Perfect mix of stylish, boisterous and deeply funny anti-capitalist, anti-cop, anti-pimp satire and a much quieter, sadder, more grounded personal drama in the back half.
Willie Dynamite (1973)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
was seated last night NYC? more like CGI (is this anything)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
was seated last night for a 16mm screening Every man could conceivably put on the mask - even if not to personally commit violence against women, to run cover for the killers amongst us and uphold the patriarchy that perpetuates this violence.
Scream (1996)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
rewatched earlier had more fun with this than i thought i would have on this revisit. Goldfinger's plan is so audacious i kinda wished it worked
Goldfinger (1964)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Kojima voice: watched earlier
Dr. No (1962)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
watched earlier An absolutely insane (laudatory) movie. At its best when it drops all pretense of being allegory and becomes thuddingly literal. The present invading and committing imperial violence upon the past.
Walker (1987)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
watched earlier Achingly romantic, incredibly stylish. 90 minutes of our three leads with the most painful yearning expressions ever put on film
My Heart is that Eternal Rose / 殺手蝴蝶夢 (1989)
100
Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
watched earlier Flashes of brilliance severely undercut by mismatched stylistic choices. Concept outpaces the execution, but some really cool spycraft and action sequences on the back end
Saturday Fiction / 兰心大剧院 (2019)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
watched earlier An incredible amount of psychosexual and cultural metaphors being worked out here. My wife pointed out this is literally also the plot to Bakemonogatari S1
Cat People (1942)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
watched earlier Michael tells John Landis to catch his entire body in the shot - you can't feel the dance without seeing the dancer's feet. The very next shot is a close up. A metaphor for the film itself - zoomed so far in you can't get a feel for who he is at all
Michael (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
watched earlier Incisive politics, some really brutal kills and some great understated stuntwork from Pam Grier, but ultimately a bit too scattershot to really gel
Coffy (1973)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
watched earlier a mix of incredibly vulnerable and fifty thousand increasingly zany background gags sold in perfect deadpan. a great send-off to the brat era
The Moment (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
watched earlier Extremely stylish, soundtrack absolutely rips, but there's a frictionlessness and weakly plotted character arc that weighs the whole thing down
Black Caesar (1973)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
rewatched earlier "What is he, the new Noriega? He helps you kill communists so you let him sell drugs to [blacks] and [Hispanics]? You even bring it up for him." Happy 4th
Deep Cover (1992)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
watched earlier Great gags, great vibes, a real earnest beating heart under it all. A friend remarked to me earlier that there's a lineage from noir to the early blaxploitation films, and I'm inclined to agree
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
watched earlier cool to see how much this inspired Fargo
Nightfall (1956)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
watched earlier a perfect noir. Kathie and Ann should've run off together instead
Out of the Past (1947)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
watched earlier For something so cobbled together, disowned by its creator and forgetting everything that made it what it was, this feels like it has no right to be as good as it is. A metaphor for itself.
Maniac Cop 3 (1992)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
watched earlier an incredible improvement on the original. wild that fresher kills, bigger stunts and a Grandmaster Flash style end credits hip hop track about the eponymous Maniac Cop feels less overly indulgent than the first
Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
100
Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
watched earlier
Maniac Cop (1988)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
watched earlier: Mendonça's Eddington. Unfortunately caught between wonderful, lyrical, literary magical realist mode and a pulpier high-octane western in a way that doesn't quite deliver on either premise for me. Loved catching all the Mendonça regulars!
Bacurau (2019)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
watched earlier Struck by how populist Singh's lens actually is. There's a clear visual throughline here with PWSA and Michael Bay. A missing key between Event Horizon and Resident Evil (2002)
The Cell (2000)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Liked the core metaphor, but felt like we kinda missed out on really driving it home or exploring the themes of hauntology in any really meaningful way
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
finally seated
Backrooms (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
forgot to post: watched yesterday Falls short of being a serviceable thriller on account of some really middle of the road filmmaking and core structural weaknesses/internalized misogyny
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
An incredible cast of character actors. Tom Cruise is the most athletic lawyer alive. Supremely tactile movie-making. A vision of a lost era of entertainment for adults - but maybe no less fantastical than superheroes and dragons
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
nw Deep lore: the Firm was the first piece of adult fiction I read as a kid and really informed so much of my taste going forward. Excited to finally see the film adaptation
The Firm (1993)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Barker has an incredible sense of humor - a ton of broadly telegraphed Chekov's jumpscares that never occur, but the lack of closure surrounding that unresolved tension never goes away
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
a bit late, but now seated
Obsession (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Solidarity is a verb. There are always more oppressed than oppressors, and they're hoping that we decide to hide alone rather than stand together
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
the Saturday afternoon western is an important companion piece to the Sunday afternoon noir nw
High Noon (1952)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Despite the non-linear/multiple POV set up teasing a tight puzzlebox sort of narrative, Lumet et al. give us a much more restrained and thematically rich exploration of three distinctly, but interlockingly, fucked up men within one family Cool to see Lumet & Finney team up again
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
getting another Sunday afternoon noir un on a spiritually Sunday afternoon sort of day nw
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
now seated
Our Hero, Balthazar (2025)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
caught up on some 2026 new releases I missed earlier
Send Help (2026)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
finishing the mainline On Fire series nw
School on Fire / 學校風雲 (1988)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
every weekend should end with a Sunday afternoon neonoir nw
52 Pick-Up (1986)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
had to come back to this one too after revisiting Infernal Affairs 🙂‍↕️ rw
The Departed (2006)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
coming back to this after about 20 years rw
Infernal Affairs / 無間道 (2002)
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Rin @hochirin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
nw
Body Double (1984)
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