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2025

★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

fun albeit libbed out movie about the power of political assassination. Timely!

1968

★★★★★ Liked 2

13th century Bohemia! Teutonic Knights! The peril and allure of religious fanaticism! Wonderfully period-accurate settings and costumes! Gorgeous cinematography! Weird medieval stepmommy stuff! An inescapable sense of dread! What doesn’t this movie have?

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2024

★★★★ Liked Watched 30 Nov 2024

Pope movies are second only to journalism movies for me in of “idc what it’s about im watching that shit.” Conclave to me is a film about political organizing dressed up as a pope movie. Much like the closed world of the sanitarium in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is a concentration of Europe’s political sicknesses prior to WWI, the titular conclave is very much a microcosm of our current debates about politicized religion in the smartphone age. Conclave…

1989

★★★★½ Liked 1

When I first watched Twin Peaks I was 18 years old, like most of the female characters are in the series, though I was in college at the time. I’d just fallen hopelessly in love with a man whose handsomeness and what seemed to me like worldliness (he was from Raleigh, I was from the sticks) put me into the kind of heady acceleration into adulthood I wished my mother warned me about. Anyway, he showed me Twin Peaks, which…

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