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  Boty: I Am the Sixties 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I assume both of these are rights issues but a shame that the music was so bad and that they didn’t use any of the Ali Smith writing on Boty from Autumn

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  Get Carter 1971

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025 1

  Whats the matter you got gut trouble or somefink?

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  Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Sep 2024

  would have loved some context on America during those years, particularly given the ways that Bush, 9/11 and the Iraq and Afghanisatan wars seeped into the show in its later seasons and absolutely became part of its increasingly black nightmare mood.

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  Beatles '64 2024

  ★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2024

  Beatles films should lead on quality, this doesn’t and is a median quality brand streamer offering. I wanted this to be a different film, one that let the Maysles footage speak for itself and honoured their cinema verité intentions. It isn’t that, and some of the gambits come off - the women are by and large way more interesting than the men, I like the Marshall McLuhan stuff, I can always watch Little Richard and Ronnie Spector - but the…

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