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Recent reviews

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  Watched 03 Oct 2024

  Todd Phillips (after giving Joker fans what they fucking deserve): You wouldn't get it...

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  Inside Out 2 2024

  Watched 21 Sep 2024

  Orange you glad anxiety doesn't control your life?

Popular reviews

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  Shaolin Soccer 2001

  Watched 25 Nov 2019 1

  Commercial goods and cultural artefacts were conveyed between East and West via the Silk Road for over a thousand years. Could soccer be an invention of China, like papermaking, the compass, gunpowder, or the printing press? Though the question is not addressed in this film, itself a product of mimetic cross-pollination, it does serve to demonstrate the problem of origins at the heart of contemporary culture. We know that Cuju, a game in which players attempted to kick a ball…

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  Masters of Menace 1990

  Watched 05 Apr 2020

  After invoking their 27th Amendment right to "raise hell" (probably the only funny gag in this unfunny flop), beer-swilling biker gang the Road Masters narrowly avoid jail time, but predictably break their double secret probation anyway, ignoring the advice of their pitiably straight-laced live-in lawyer in order to honour one of their recently deceased members (Jim Belushi, in a very brief appearance) with a dignified biker burial — or what passes for one, in what is otherwise an undignified romp…