desmond

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  • Think About Wood, Think About Metal

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  • Geoffrey Asmus: The Only Funny White Man

    ★★★

  • Four Kings: Exclusive Preview

    ★★★★

  • Stand Up Solutions

    ★★★★

  • Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants

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  • Four Kings: Exclusive Preview

    Four Kings: Exclusive Preview

    ★★★★

    Saw a YouTube short with Chris Eubank, led me to this mini series.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★

    Another solid entry in the live action remake of a Rick and Morty episode canon.

    The Shining carpet + Carrie + 2001 soundtrack mashup was... subtle!

    First one in 2025 with Justin!

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  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

    Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

    ★★★★★

    There are a many parallels between Salo and Contempt, which I watched last night. Both are movies about the idea of cinema, rather movies against the idea of cinema. How aestheticized does violence have to be for it to be acceptable, for it to be Art? After watching both, I feel everything stripped away; my perversion and lust, my love for art, for cinema is all a joke, something to be ashamed of. An art directed symbol on a screen…

  • Memoria

    Memoria

    ★★★★½

    Upstairs Theater 3 at Sag Harbor Cinema. Guy behind the ticket counter told us, "good choice, this might be the best movie I've seen in the last decade." Then said, "someone walked out of a screening after the first 45 minutes and called it the worst thing they've ever seen. That's like if you stopped reading Moby Dick before they even get on the boat." Weird, I was just thinking of maybe reading that, but haven't yet. All that to…