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Recent reviews

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  Bird Box 2018

  ★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2019

  Okay

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  To Kill a Mockingbird 1962

  ★ Watched 15 Jun 2017

  Boring. Extremely dated racial politics sitting beneath the prism of white savior complex. Didn't like this one at all. A star for Peck, Scout, Jem!

Popular reviews

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  Fight Club 1999

  ½ Watched 02 Feb 2017 1

  Pop Foucaultism. Faux Baudrillardian philosophizing. If Reddit and Twitter MRAs would collaborate for a film, they would have made this.

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  My Father, My Mother 1978

  ★★★★ Added

  There are a lot of dated dominant themes and social justice red flags in this film, much as Tubog sa Ginto (1970) where Don Benito "struggles" with keeping his "false" display of heterosexuality, as if homosexuality exists in a template of monolithic expression. Respectability politics (Dolphy lecturing his flamboyant friends, "kaya kayo nababastos eh" (that's why people disrespect you)), horizontal oppression/appeal to moderation (Dolphy policing his helper's colorful makeup), investment on capitalist production/apex fallacy (Dolphy's Q&A soliloquy about gay people…

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