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  To Live and Die in L.A. 1985

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Mar 2025

  What a way to fail the Bechdel test. No notes.

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2024

  "So if you've got no job and runnin' out of dough
  And they moved the factory down to Mexico
  Just pack your bags and don't forget your Kimona
  And you'll be followin' me, honey, all the way to Yokohama"

  (Me listening to my "Jericho" cassette on the way home from seeing Perfect Days, thinking about how Hirayama makes me want to be a better person.)

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  Barbarian 2022

  ★★★★ Added

  Pretty, pretty great. Can't believe Marjorie Taylor Greene commutes between Detroit and DC.

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  Drive-Away Dolls 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2024

  I knew about Ethan's comments regarding "important films" and his apparent disdain for the contemporary holding pattern of self-seriousness our culture finds itself in -- and that Drive-Away Dolls would more than lean into the B-movie bit -- but I was still pleasantly surprised that the relationship between the two protagonists itself works as a nice allegory for the conversation the film may or may not be having with the present zeitgeist, as the free spirited Jamie spends much of…

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