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  Girlfight 2000

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Michelle Rodriguez's break out film is interesting. It's about attitudes to women, attitudes about sport, and Rodriguez is the perfect badass for the central role.

  It's a pretty simple story, but it's very well told.

  I have a bit of an issue with the message of the movie but I think it's an issue on which the movie openly invites discussion.

  Rodriguez's character thinks she should be able to have fights with male fighters and that should be fine. But…

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  Bottoms 2023

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Unfinished
  Wait, this is from the same director who did Shiva Baby?

  But... that was hilarous!

  Whereas this... isn't. I cannot help but compare this, unfavourably, to the other comedy about two lesbian friends: Drive Away Dolls.

  I know comedy is subjective, but good comedy is carefully written. You cannot just give any old jokes to comic geniuses like Rachel Sennot and expect them to spin your sow's ear of a script into a silk purse. Sennot is doing what she can with this bollocks and I personally don't think she was able to save it.

Popular reviews

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  Into the Wild 2007

  ½ Watched 21 Jan 2011 21

  Okay, I cannot for the life of me work out why anyone recommended this. (I've just tried and failed to work out where I saw this being recommended, so perhaps that was my imagination.) Okay, so there's good news and bad news and we're starting with the good news. So, what was good about this movie? The acting was really good from pretty much everyone (asides from Kristen Stewart - more on that later). The cinematography by Eric Gautier was…

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  The Breakfast Club 1985

  ½ Watched 12 Apr 2014 18

  It did not take long for me to start hating this film. It doesn't seem like a great decision to put your moral in voiceover narration at the title credits, but I suppose the point was that we were supposed to recognise the clichés that are listed in the characters. The initial narration tells the teacher not to judge his pupils in simple pigeon-holed stereotypes which are listed as: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a…