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Sweet Bean 2015
Sometimes I read a log line here and automatically know I'll love a movie. Such was the case with Sweet Bean but I couldn’t have imagined how much I would embrace this film.
There are rare, beautiful movies that reward you for going along with a slow, deliberate pace without a ton of plot or sparkling dialogue and this is one of them. Movies where if you give in, you can find them changing your perspective on life as you’re watching…
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Babylon 2022
A masterpiece. I am so mad at myself for not seeing this in theaters, but the marketing and critics blew it on this one. It is one of the best and funniest movies I have ever seen in my life. It is also the fastest moving 3+ hour movie I've ever seen.
Just a stunning, larger than life piece of art that hooks you in the first minutes and never lets go. To even explain the laugh that got me…
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The Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl 1984
Decades before Disney made Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, there was The Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl.
I discovered this title because I was on jp-films looking for a different movie (I swear on my life). When I saw the title, I started chuckling. When I read the plot description, I started laughing out loud. When I found out the director of this movie went on to win an Academy Award for Best…
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Villain 2010
A movie about the crippling effects of loneliness, from a country where the epidemic is particularly brutal, and how the murder of a young woman impacts the perpetrator, the victim’s family, and those caught up in the immediate aftermath.
Yuichi was abandoned by his mother as a young child and lives in a dying town by the sea. He reaches out to women on dating sites, but is socially awkward and only meets women who want to be paid to…
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The Christmas Quest 2024
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This is my fourth year watching Hallmark Christmas movies after a friend and my sister told me how much they enjoyed them, and now I've come to enjoy them a great deal, too. But I don't know how much I'd enjoy them if there wasn't such a great community here. I love the snarky reviews. I love the earnest reviews. Whether people enjoy them ironically or genuinely, I love the love.
So the above Cameo from Andrew Walker* is…
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Christmas with the Singhs 2024
A Hallmark movie where a couple kisses and gets engaged before the first commercial break? What sorcery is this?!?
I’m admittedly a pushover with these to begin with, but if you have some diversity in the story, I’m gonna embrace it. Anuja Joshi is an instant star in her first lead role in a movie and Ben Hollingsworth is really finding his spot as the well meaning goofy white guy. Predictable as hell (compliment) but I loved seeing different cultures…
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