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Jim Keel

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Breathless, 1960 – ★★★★

  • Jim Keel
  • 05/03/2025
Breathless, 1960 – ★★★★

It’s wild how a movie can feel both totally spontaneous and perfectly composed at the same time. Breathless doesn’t play by the rules—it shrugs them off and lights a cigarette while walking backwards into traffic.

Goddard captures something here that feels dangerous and immediate.

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Persona, 1966 – ★★★★
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Persona, 1966 – ★★★★

  • Jim Keel
  • 04/27/2025

Persona feels like a dream. Or maybe a hallucination. Half the time I wasn’t even sure what was really happening, but somehow that made me like it even more. There’s this weird feeling that maybe Sister Alma and Elisabeth aren’t two separate people at all.

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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, 2007 – ★★★½

  • Jim Keel
  • 04/19/2025

It’s a brutal film. Bleak, heavy, and filled with characters making the worst possible decisions over and over again. There’s no “good” person in this story. Just people who are broken in different ways, and watching them unravel is both fascinating and deeply painful.

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Black Narcissus, 1947 – ★★★★

  • Jim Keel
  • 04/19/2025

I still can’t believe this movie came out in 1947. It looks incredible. The colors, the lighting, the way shadows are used, it’s honestly some of the most beautiful cinematography I’ve ever seen in a film this old. I kept forgetting it was all done on sets in a studio, because it feels so real and alive.

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The Lady Vanishes, 1938 – ★★★½

  • Jim Keel
  • 04/19/2025

I had such a good time with this movie. I knew it was a mystery going in, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so funny. The dialogue is super sharp and the characters are all a little quirky in the best way.

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Paris, Texas, 1984 – ★★★½

  • Jim Keel
  • 04/19/2025

Every single frame of this movie could be a painting. Robby Müller’s cinematography is just… unreal. It captures that vast, lonely beauty of the American Southwest in a way that somehow feels both epic and deeply personal. The way the colors hit, the way the characters are placed in the frame, it’s all so intentional without ever feeling showy.

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Challengers, 2024 – ★★★★

  • Jim Keel
  • 08/11/2024

Not what I was expecting. This movie was very good with an excellent score from Trent Reznor.

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Sounds of the Void Presents: The Top 50 Metal Albums of 2023
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Sounds of the Void Presents: The Top 50 Metal Albums of 2023

  • Jim Keel
  • 12/15/2023

So, here we are. The end of 2023. This is the second year in a row that I have done a Top 50 as opposed to a Top 10 as I have done in years passed. I even considered not doing a full site blog and just relegating it to an Instagram post, but I want to make sure I am not hindered by the apps character limit and tag limit.…

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Sounds of the Void Presents: The Top 25 Dungeon Synth Releases of 2023
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Sounds of the Void Presents: The Top 25 Dungeon Synth Releases of 2023

  • Jim Keel
  • 12/14/2023

2022 was the year of Dungeon Synth for me. I discovered the genre in 2021 but went far down the rabbit hole in 2022. So much so, that Bandcamp was where I was listening to most of my music. I have amassed over 1,000 Dungeon Synth releases on my Bandcamp page as well.…

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Sounds of the Void: April 2023
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Sounds of the Void: April 2023

  • Jim Keel
  • 05/08/2023

Happy May! I can’t believe we are almost halfway through 2023, but here we are. April was heavy, and I mean HEAVY. We’ll get into the best metal had to offer this past month but first I want to talk about a killer Dungeon Synth label in Dark Sorcery Records.…

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