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  Snow White 2025

  ★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Gal Gadot’s evil camp performance combined with the dark ride “Scary Adventures” psychedelia of the CGI dwarfs made Snow White (2025) a vaguely compelling installment in the Disney live-action canon, but the musical numbers felt uninspired and flat (except for Rachel Zegler’s powerhouse vocals, which carry the film), auto-tuned to death, poorly mixed, and cheesy, especially the “Princess Problems” number, which is sung by a Robin Hood-coded bandit character played by Andrew Burnap, who isn’t a prince, which is probably what Zegler…

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  Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  A raw exposé-style documentary about the ethics and bizarro culture of a not-yet corporatized pro wrestling circuit as a cutthroat PT Barnum-style “circus” driven by power struggles, humongous egos, paranoia, tragic figures, fractured honor codes, jealously, and Montreal-based screw jobs. One of the “tragic figures” is the wrestler and Old West cowboy-coded Canadian hero, Bret “The Hitman” Hart, and this is the story of how he got SCREWED.

Popular reviews

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  Carny 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025 2

  Somehow the realest and most disturbingly surreal, fever dream-like depiction of life in a carnival with raw and unnerving performances by Gary Busey as a deranged dunk-tank clown and Robbie Robertson as the damaged and amoral scammer “Patch.”

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  The Apprentice 2024

  ★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  Thinking about how Mel Gibson must have watched this the way zoomers watch hentai.