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  Prayer of the Rollerboys 1990

  ★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Talk about being ripe for rediscovery: western chauvinist drug slinging youth gang making use of irl white power slogans and symbology while being led by proto-Jake Paul on rollerblades, ft Patricia Arquette’s sloppy kisses. It’s either way too juvenile for some of its subject matter, or it is wildly inappropriate for its demographic, but really, either of these works to the benefit of a 2025 viewing. The Germany/Poland stuff and all the Polack jokes, just… a screenwriter gone wild

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  Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  More like 75-80 minutes, let’s be for real with those credits…. I would totally, totally have the appetite for feature-length episodes like this every year or two; I am very glad to finish this and see that the follow-up is coming out in a month :,) Great franchise extension/renewal/reboot, but probably frustrating as a pure standalone film (I guess not that it matters, starting here or elsewhere with it). I think it could have surpassed these constraints with more time and…

Popular reviews

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  The House with Laughing Windows 1976

  ★★★★ Rewatched 22 Oct 2024

  How fitting that this film’s restoration would be so aesthetically revelatory. I really did not appreciate how beautiful and expertly made this movie is when I first viewed it like a decade ago, and I found its reputation and fanfare to be unearned and more the product of its final twist as opposed to anything deeper. I was wrong ❤️ I think it was also done dirty by my viewing it as one of many giallo films in a binge,…

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  The Devil 1972

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Oct 2024

  I had tried to watch this film while a little bit stoned a few years ago, and this was a very unpleasant and overwhelming experience simply on a sensory level. Even sober and watching it in the late afternoon, it is so stressful and visually frenetic/“loud” that it approached the line of being physically difficult to keep watching for the degree to which it was wearing me out, and I was quite relieved when the camera finally calms down considerably…

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