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  Oldboy 2003

  ★★★★ Rewatched 27 Mar 2025

  You'd have to be pretty slow not to see the twist coming, but no real sicko could ever turn their nose up at Oldboy.

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  Scratch 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  An indispensable documentary that gathers all of the great innovators of turntablism, a celebration made bittersweet when you know just how badly their artform is about to be commercially decimated by the ubiquity of cheap/free/easy-to-steal beatmaking software. It's a tangential and vibes-based affair, but the vibes are pleasantly chummy and mellow. The only curious omission is the subject of hip-hop's most damnable foe, copyright laws.

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  Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV 2024

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2024 1

  There are a lot of gross clips of blatant child sexualization in this week's biggest water-cooler event, a four-part documentary exposé of monstrous Nickelodeon sitcom creator Dan Schneider and the pedophiles who leeched off of him. But there's also something gross happening behind the camera, in spite of mostly good intentions and the courageous honesty of the interviewees. The final episode concludes with what looks like paid advertising for Drake Bell's public rehabilitation, rewarding his (admittedly brutal and unenviable) candor…

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★ Watched 03 Mar 2024 2

  - I had sincerely hoped that Part Two would have more forward momentum after the glacial world-building of Part One, but instead I feel like I've been conned into a timeshare on Arrakis. If you don't take this stuff 100% seriously, there's no way in.
  - It's weird to me that the hippie subculture embraced this story, since Frank Herbert's philosophy seems to be the opposite of Herbert Marcuse's. This is a hacky and obvious thing to say, but the…

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