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Moviescramble - The Neural Cut Ep 34: Peacock

A deep dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by Mary Munoz.
Matthias is a master of his profession. Do you need a 'cultured boyfriend' to impress your friends? A 'perfect son' to influence your business partners' opinion of you? Or maybe just a sparring partner to rehearse an argument? Whatever it is, just rent Matthias. While he excels at pretending to be someone else every day, just being himself is the real challenge.
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Moviescramble - The Neural Cut Ep 33: Anora

A deep dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by Mary Munoz.
Anora, a young stripper from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
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Moviescramble - Ep 114: Frankenstein & Lisa Frankenstein

Our second review from the Universal Monsters box set features our review of the original Frankenstein coupled with the 2024 film Lisa Frankenstein.
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Moviescramble - The Neural Cut Ep 32: Eephus

A deep dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by Mary Munoz.
As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up, and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.
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Moviescramble - The Neural Cut Ep 31: Aftersun

A deep dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by Mary Munoz.
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures the rare time she spends with her loving, idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye, Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't, in Charlotte Wells' superb and searingly emotional debut film.
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Moviescramble - Deleted scenes Ep 113: Part 2

The further adventures of the off cuts from our review of Sentimental Value. We chat film festivals, Timmy Chalamet, and funding for the arts.
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Moviescramble - The Neural Cut Ep 30:The Boy And The Herron

A deep dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by Mary Munoz.
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy ventures into a dreamlike world shared by the living and the dead in search of his missing stepmother.
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Moviescramble - The Neural Cut Ep 29: That They May Face The Rising Sun

A deep dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by Mary Munoz. 
That They May Face the Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work in a small, rural lakeside community in Ireland, near where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play, and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
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Moviescramble - Deleted scenes Ep 113: Part 1

The off-cuts from our review of Sentimental Value. Mostly what we’ve been watching and John’s visit to a five hour opera.
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Moviescramble - The Neural Cut Ep 28: Another Round

A deep dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by Mary Munoz.
There is a theory that man is born with half a per mille too little, that alcohol in the blood opens the mind to the outside world, problems seem smaller, and creativity increases. We know it well: after the first glass of wine, the conversation lifts, the possibilities open up. Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) is a high-school teacher who feels old and tired. His students and their parents want him terminated to increase their average. Encouraged by the per mille theory, Martin and his three colleagues throw themselves into an experiment to maintain a constant alcohol impact in everyday life. If Churchill won World War II in a dense fog of spirits, what could the strong drops do for them and their students? The result is positive in the beginning. Martin's class is different now, and the project is being promoted to a real academic study with the collection of results. Slowly but surely, the alcohol makes the four friends and their surroundings loosen up. The results are rising, and they really begin to feel life. As the objects go inboard, the experiment progresses for some and goes off track for others. It becomes clearer and clearer that alcohol can generate great results in world history, but that all daring can also have consequences. The film is described as a fun, touching, and thought-provoking drama about friendship, freedom, and alcohol. Another Round (Danish: Druk, lit. 'Binge drinking') is a 2020 black comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, co-written with Tobias Lindholm. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe, the film follows four high school teachers who experiment with maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood to boost creativity and confidence.
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