what moves. what survives.
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Spades: The Power Ranger Who Went Full Neo‑Noir
/ Critic/ Spades (2026) | Dir. Johnny Yong Bosch/ ★★★☆ Indie action, big swings, and a vigilante who refuses to stay in the shadow Ghost Rider, Tyler Durden, Butcher Billy and Jesus Christ walk into a bar owned by a former Power Ranger… They take a drunk selfie in a Photobooth… … Leave cryptic messages…
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Open a eye: A Mirror That Doesn’t Judge
/ Critic/ Open A Eye – Season One (2026) | Dir. Dave Ash/ ★★★★☆ A claustrophobic story about the current epidemic of loneliness. Suddenly music and noise flood every sensory space. They push Jodi into a deafening anxiety attack while she looks for an active credit card to sign up for a new AI plan.…
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Gone to Ground (and dots floating in the air)
/ Critic/ Gone to Ground (2025) | Dir. Phil Peel/ ★½☆ It is August 12, 2026, and the long‑awaited solar eclipse crosses Europe while I am on a flight from Munich to Barcelona. Busy day for sungazers. Eclipses have fascinated people since the beginning. The union of opposites playing out in the sky. The great…
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Destroy to create art. Survive the method
/ Critic / Method (2025) | Dir. Chandler Balli / ★★★½☆ It’s the middle of the night, and there I am, staring at a monitor filled with a face covered in duct tape. The flash is quick, and the jump scare hits hard… small, misshapen eyes staring back. Both the mask’s eyes and the ones…
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AFTER THE VIOLENCE, ANYWHERE BEGINS
/ Critic / / Anywhere (2024) | Dir. Adam Seidel / / ★★★½☆ Living with existential crises born from the wrong choices we make has become part of the mental “behind the scenes” of daily life. Therapy, addictions, and feed overload are all there to numb troubled hearts. That is easy to observe or talk about… but…
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SELVAGEM RITUAL: Uncle acid & the deadbeats, RAZZMATAZZ (2026)
UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS @ Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona / June 14, 2026 | w/ Dirty Sound Magnet It was still daylight when I arrived. Guto was already inside watching Dirty Sound Magnet. I didn’t give him time to say whether they were good or not… we headed straight to the smoking area, lit one…
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Lost in the Milky Way
Amsterdam’s Melkweg, June 2022: when Geese was becoming something else (and I was too close to see it) (Note: I originally published this text on The Riff – Medium _ Feb 26, 2026). One hour before Melkweg’s doors opened in Amsterdam, I found myself counting the infinite cigarette butts piled up across the street, debating…
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The Wrong Narrator
/ Critic / / After the Devil is Dead (2025) | Dir. Paul Catalanotto / / ★★☆ After the Devil Is Dead: a documentary about femicide and abuse, told by a man “…but what’s the big deal with true crime?” That’s what I kept asking myself while watching After the Devil Is Dead (2026), a documentary by…
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Weekend at the End of the World: high concepts, low ambition
/ Critic / / Weekend at the End of the World (2025) | Dir. Gille Klabin / / ★★½☆ Late May. Barcelona. The spring heat is settled, the kind of weather that makes you want to lock the door, turn on the AC, and find a movie that matches the strange speed of the day. Weekend at…
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Beatitude on the road: Walter Salles’ take on Kerouac’s classic
(Note: This text was originally published on July 13, 2012). Jack Kerouac fans and On The Road die-hards are biting their nails raw as they wait to face a couple of hours of the book’s silver screen adaptation. A few hours that summarize a book written in three weeks, featuring a romance inspired by a…