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  Threads 1984

  Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Funnier than it gets credit for, or maybe I'm just utterly emotionally deadened. Dead rats in a grocery bag marked "good food", come on! Also has a bit of political satire. There's a real, though nose-tweaking, case to be made here that this is actually about Thatcherism. The government is separated from the people and are completely unable to help anyone, even themselves. All they CAN do, and what seems to be the core of authority and governance, is bark…

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  John Mulaney: New in Town 2012

  Watched 20 Feb 2025

  There's like four or five totally separate bits in here where he uses a "sassy black person" voice. What are you doing, man, a minstrel show?

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  Dementia 1955

  ★★★★★ Added 5

  (Permit me to ramble.)

  By all rights, this movie should not exist. The principal creatives of this project (the director John Parker, and the lead actress Adrienne Barret who literally dreamed the plot) were a strike of lightning, never to recur. They shouldn't be making silent movies in 1955, they shouldn't even be making independent films in Hollywood for that matter! A film that shares a cinematographer with Plan 9 From Outer Space should not be dripping with chiaroscuro beauty…

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  Here and Elsewhere 1976

  Watched 02 Jan 2020 1

  Not to be performatively sanctimonious, but it's gross to have this rare footage of soon-to-die Palestinian revolutionaries, and to use it as mere grist for your postmodern despair. The movie self-flagellates on its manufacture and manipulative intent, such as when a summary "translation" is interrupted by a second narrator who rebuts the first summary for being too academic and then relays what the people in the footage are actually saying. This doesn't stop the filmmakers from, say, taking their footage…