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Lucas Friesen

Lucas Friesen

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Companion Made Me Question Everything

Companion is overrated. With a 94% critics score and 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, I realize my opinion for this movie is in the minority. Peliplat keeps it a bit more real, rating the movie a 7.4, but even that seems too high. I'm surprised to see such high praise and the audience flocking to the theatre, despite the movie having a first-time director and a cast made up of relative newcomers. To me, the movie had no clear point, and a social commentary that is neither accurate nor enti

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Companion Made Me Question Everything
Lucas Friesen

Lucas Friesen

Cinephile PanelManuscript MagicianThe Film Collector

10-Year-Old Me Would've Loved The Electric State

The reality of it all... I can't stay young forever, and with my growing age comes changing preferences. I don't know what I expected to find when I turned on The Electric State. It was the top trending movie on Netflix; Millie Bobby Brown was calling out her haters; and I'd heard about the movie's exorbitant budget. This mixture of trends, gossip, and overspending usually would've kept me away from such a movie. But, for one reason or another, on that fateful week night, I decided to press play

JennMaxwell: I couldn't agree more. Like, yeah the criticism is fair, but can't we just have some fun and entertain our inner child sometimes?!

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Lucas Friesen

Lucas Friesen

Cinephile PanelManuscript MagicianThe Film Collector
· 02/20/2025

What's your favourite robot movie?

I watched Companion last night and it got me thinking about all these new robot movies. Maybe it's because we're in 2025, the same year as Her, or maybe it's because of the AI boom in the real world, but it feels like robot movies and robot characters are everywhere. This made me wonder what my favourite robot movie is. Or what my favourite robot in a movie is. Off the top, I think I need to give the prize to Wall-E. I love that little cosmic piece of metal. But what about you? What's your favourite robot movie?

Everything A24: It's all about Ava from Ex Machina! She's the best!!

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