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1985

★★★★ Liked Rewatched 04 May 2024

Engineering schools as weapons-developing laboratories for the CIA to vaporize people from above? How unrealistic!

2022

★★★★ Liked Watched 22 Apr 2024

I Got Puked On at "The People's Joker" And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

(actually the t-shirt is pretty nice, as were the Vidiots staff who attended to us after the incident)

"The People's Joker is a funny, absurd, riotously creative, and moving film about a trans woman realizing and exploring her gender identity. Openly re-interpreting and riffing on the Batman universe, the film is a great example of queer people taking inspiration from and creating their own art inspired by a mainstream pop culture that ignores them and is often actively hostile to them.

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2024

★★★★ Liked Watched 22 Feb 2024

A tense, moving, and multilayered survival drama, with magnetic performances by the two leads, and gorgeous cinematography.

1989

★★★½ Liked Watched 25 Dec 2023

A well-crafted Home Alone predecessor that starts with a light tone and becomes genuinely darker and nightmarish. Thomas the protagonist is a whiz with computers and electronics, but he still comes across as a child. Unlike Home Alone, it's not one long slapstick cartoon. It's stylized for sure, and Thomas has a lot at his disposal, but his attempts to defeat the intruder don't always work, and moment to moment it genuinely has a feeling of menace and peril. And…

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