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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  My knowledge about Bob Dylan and his life is fairly limited, so watching A Complete Unknown blind is certainly a way to know more about one of history's greatest artists. James Mangold covers most of his early career, up until the release of the highly acclaimed Highway 61 Revisited album, by exploring the conflict between Dylan - played by Timothée Chalamet - and the music industry, locking him into a set of expectations and conventions they wanted him to appropriate,…

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Walter Salles had already left a mark on me with his story of unexpected motherhood in 1998's Central Station, and now, he breaks all of our hearts with this 2024 biopic. I'm Still Here is a harrowing tale of antifascism, as the horrors of Brazil's military dictatorship during the 1970's aren't quite left to the imagination in this story of a mother who, upon tragedy striking, is forced to reinvent herself to protect her family and shield it, while finding…

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  Halloween Kills 2021

  ★ Watched 16 Oct 2021

  I watched this film with a friend on a Discord get-together (couldn't go to the theater for this one). It was quite the experience. Look, as soon as we saw Michael kill a woman by pushing a car door against her and the whiplash making the gun she was holding against her turn around and trigger off, blowing her brains out... yeah. That's when you know the kind of movie you're watching.

  This is an extraordinarly, spectacularly stupid film. And,…

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  Turning Red 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 May 2022

  Pixar is a childhood staple of my life. Literally, some of my earliest memories include watching Toy Story 2 on VHS. That movie remains one of my all-time favorites, while masterpieces such as the original Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up and Toy Story 3 all saw me grow up and made me privileged to have such quality art accompanying my transition to teenhood. In said teenhood, Pixar went through a slightly less inspired moment,…