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  Girl in Gold Boots 1968

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Kitschy crime melodrama set in the world of sixties nightclubs. Leslie McRay plays a go go dancing obsessed waitress who leaves her abusive dad to travel to Hollywood with shady Tom Pace who promises her a job at the night club his sister dances in. Along the way they pick up hitch hiking song writer Critter played by Jody Daniels who has a sort of Elvis thing going on. They end up at what looks like a satanic night club…

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★★ Rewatched 01 Feb 2025

  This has to be the roughest year for Oscars ever. We've seen ruthless awards seasons before but come on. And we need an escape so badly right now too. People really hate this movie! This is the only film in history that unites the religious right and trans community although they hate it for different reasons. Hate is Hate. Some of the criticisms I think are quibbles. I loved this on first viewing. I thought there was a stylized quality…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2024

  Where to begin? I waited for this movie to get to Apple TV because it was a bit pricey and I doubted I would watch it again. I was very apprehensive because it seemed like a broccoli movie. You know? Watch it because its good for you? Scorsese didn't do himself any favors with his combative promotional tour deriding streamers with their limited super hero movie attention spans and claiming that if we can binge for hours we can handle…

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  Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Nov 2023

  I haven't watched many of these DC animated films but watched this on a whim and really liked it. One of my gripes with these shows is the lacklustre heavily anime inspired character design but its not that bad in this one. I like the dark tone to this story and the R rated violence. I like a violent cartoon! Its not completely comics accurate but distills the story down to a manageable 90 minutes. For all the grief people…

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