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  Dog Day Afternoon 1975

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025 1

  The fact that the real life Sonny watched Al Pacino in the godfather before the heist, who then portrayed him 3 years later in this movie will never get old. 

  The understated fragility of all the performances was really impressed on me this time around: the way that Pacino’s eyes widen and his body tenses as he rages against the system, while simultaneously moving as if he’s already in a death spasm showing how highly strung he is. Holy shit…

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  #Horror 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  #Horror (2015) is a chilling and thought-provoking exploration of the dark side of digital culture. The film follows a group of teenage girls 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 whose seemingly innocent online game 🎮 turns into a terrifying nightmare 😱, highlighting the disturbing consequences of cyberbullying 💻, isolation 🏠, and the pressure to maintain perfect online personas 📱. Unlike typical horror films that rely on jump scares 👻, #Horror builds tension through a slow, psychological descent into madness 🧠, with an atmosphere of dread…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 09 Mar 2025 2

  Here’s how Robert Pattinson can win best actor and best supporting actor at the Oscars

  But genuinely this movie succeeds in comparison to the novel (yes this will also be a Goodreads review) by exploring how existential questions create material conditions, opposed to the novel, which is too caught up in the existential question of cloning, using material themes as a blunt object for comedy and plot progression. The book then covers less ground because it attempts to offer philosophical…

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  Nostalgia 1983

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I am a candle. I burned at the feast. 
  Gather my wax when morning arrives
  so that this page will remind you
  how to be proud and how to weep,
  how to give away the last third
  of happiness, and how to die with ease —
  and beneath a temporary roof
  to burn posthumously, like a word

  Not much else I can write to convey my very personal feelings for this film, not much I could ever write would get…