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  Coffy 1973

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Pam Grier is a world historic babe. Amazing car-crashes-through-house scene. I guess her hospital doesn't really mind that she keeps missing work. Wonderfully disjointed. I love the normal white boy who shows up in the wrong movie.

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  I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! 1968

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Harper's Bizarre were a great band

Popular reviews

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2023 2

  A breath of fresh air in its total textbookness. I have so badly missed the mid-budget B+ movie. Hollywood used to pump out these small comfy dramas all the time but, for some reason, everybody seemed to forget how to make them around the mid-90s. They're represented at their best by Annie Hall, Kramer vs. Kramer, When Harry Met Sally, Albert Brooks' trilogy, Broadcast News and The Big Chill. The Holdovers is the sort of movie that will make you…

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  The Grabowski Shuffle 1987

  ½ Added

  Get ready to hear the word "Grabowski" in every sentence for 30 minutes. Who the hell are these people?

  It's not a mockumentary, yet they green-screen in large crowds that don't exist and edit shots to imply that the Grabowskis are hugely popular and play for stadiums. Is this a joke? or is a drama following the struggles of a musical-dance group? Is it a real documentary, or is it just using the documentary format to make it seem real?…

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