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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Voldemort would have made a good pope. Ovaries = unnecessary twist. Would have given this 4 stars before that.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  Clearly a labor of love. This was my first experience of well-made gothic horror…horror just isn’t really my genre.

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  Challengers 2024

  ½ Watched 05 May 2024

  I am stunned by the positive reviews for this film. There were several points where my husband and I physically cringed, pulled at our hair, and grimaced at each other, but we somehow endured the 2 hours and 11 minutes of pageantry and left in a perplexed rage at having given away that much of our evening. Positive critics found it “sexy.” I couldn’t get past the awkward dialogue and the cheesy suggestion that conversational back-and-forths resembled a tennis match,…

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  Brief Encounter 1945

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2021

  "laura”

  a speck of dirt could conceive
  conversation soaring ceaselessly -
  brief encounters blissed just to exist
  Epicurean as Descartes
  we meet to part
  and dream in works of art

  oh, laura, I implore ya
  I ain’t no Casanova
  say the word and Milford Station
  is my final destination
  toss your ticket to the tracks
  we’ll paint the stars with what he lacks
  and she’ll never have to know

  in your eyes I could believe
  our secluded sojourn peacefully
  bridged…

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