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Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.
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Being poor: 😠
Being poor, Japan: 😲
Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.
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Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Robert Pattinson's performance in this is much weirder than I expected.
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The first (and best) Marvel movie
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Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday January 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday February 1, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.
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Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday January 21, 2025.
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Watched on Monday January 20, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday January 18, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.
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At times the film feels like an insane hyper-fixation, but gradually a clear narrative comes into focus with a strong eco-socialist undercurrent. Beautifully shot at times, it's further evidence that Takahata could just as well have made a great body of work in live action filmmaking as well.
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Watched on Saturday January 11, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday January 11, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday January 11, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday January 8, 2025.
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Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.
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Deeply protestant in the same way that Coppola's Dracula film was deeply catholic.
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Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.
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Watched on Friday December 27, 2024.
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The second film this year where Timothee Chalamet plays a young messianic figure who ends up disappointing his first love and who's destiny ends up being more than anyone bargained for.
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Watched on Sunday December 22, 2024.
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Rewatching this as an adult I was even more impressed by Billie Bob Thornton's performance here. Thornton ably navigates Zwigoff's characteristically bipolar relationship to his subjects and delivers a surprisingly realistic portrait of a deeply depressed and damaged man circling the drain. And as broad as some of the humor is, he's able wring even more out of so many subtle little moments, like his quietly squeamish "goddamn it" after Thurman cuts himself.
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Has the narrative quality of a 90's fantasy anime OVA with the production values of a modern feature. It's what's charming about it but also what limits it.
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Watched on Monday December 9, 2024.
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"I love you, but I shouldn't have married you" is crazy for a kids movie.
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Watched on Saturday November 23, 2024.
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Watched on Monday November 18, 2024.
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If anything this made me want to do steroids more.
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Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.
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Surprisingly affecting story about poverty and grief. I want to party with the ghost cat.
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Watched on Monday November 11, 2024.
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It's 1992. I'm in the theater watching Clint Eastwood's new film and possible swan song which questions and re-frames the values of his longtime screen persona.
It's 2009. I'm in the theater watching Clint Eastwood's new film and possible swan song which questions and re-frames the values of his longtime screen persona.
It's 2024. I'm in the theater watching Clint Eastwood's new film and possible swan song which questions and re-frames the values and impacts of his longtime screen persona.
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Revisiting this as research for my forthcoming Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens sigma edits
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Watched on Saturday November 2, 2024.
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A sort of wuxia answer to the Birds. Not sure how to rate this one since I couldn't tell how much the plot issues are the film's fault and how much of it is due to the really wonky subtitles the version I saw had.
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Watched on Sunday October 27, 2024.
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Less horror and more everything-and-the-kitchen-sink gothic romanticism. Mining the canon of pre-modern western art, Coppola produces some of the most arrestingly beautiful images of his career, but everything is so mediated there is rarely a clear sense of place. There is never a sense of creeping horror produced by Dracula's presence intruding on a normal, modern world. In a way, this is more his story than anyone else's. The film often feels like a fever dream produced by an infection.
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Watched on Wednesday October 16, 2024.
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Honestly didn't expect Tim Burton of all people to crack the code on the Gen X sequel nostalgia cash in. Tells just enough of a new story and replicates just enough of what worked in the original to pull this off.
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