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  Old 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Shyamalan has his flaws and they're on full display here, but he also has his brilliant madness and I love it! Glad he's out there doing his weird thing

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Still processing this one, I'm not sure how I felt it all worked but the mood and place of it captivated me and it left me with a really complex brew of emotions that only crystallized fully as it was ending. Rating could go up or down on another watch.

  2001: A Gays Odyssey

Popular reviews

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  Sherlock Jr. 1924

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Apr 2020

  This was my first Buster Keaton and I think it could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

  The stunts are outrageous and imaginative, the physical humour had me actually belly laughing, and Keaton himself is so strangely beautiful and charismatic. I was intoxicated from start to finish.

  Watching for 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die letterboxd.com/peterstanley/list/1001-movies-you-must-see-before-you-die/

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  William S. Burroughs: A Man Within 2010

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2016

  Fairly stock-standard but enjoyable doco. Some great vintage footage and real insights into what a damaged, flawed, and brilliant artist Burroughs was. Also far more influential than I'd realised. The guy really destroyed some lives along the way though...

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