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  Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 2019

  ★★★ Watched 06 Feb 2025

  Marion and her work are incredible. It’s strongest when it’s letting Marion and her tapes really speak. Some powerful moments in there, notable the 9/11 multi-station sequence. And too many brilliant clips from Marion’s TV program. This is a really interesting story but this doc plays it super safer formally; very traditional interviews and narrative approach.

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  Camera work was great but it missed the mark for me, big time. I cannot see the hype whatsoever. Would it help if I cared about tennis?

  No steam
  No chemistry
  No drama

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  Killer Klowns from Outer Space 1988

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Oct 2023

  “What are you going to do with those pies, boys?”

  Loved this one.

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★½ Watched 02 Jan 2024 1

  What everyone will be talking about at the kombucha cooler on Monday morning.

  If there is a class analysis in this movie it has all the subtlety of a Minotaur statue in a hedge maze. 
   
  Definitely beautiful and shiny though. What it lacks in depth it tries to make up for in shock.

  File under: “rich people bad” 
  File under: “poor people evil”

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