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  Poor Things 2023

  ½ Watched 28 Jul 2024

  A movie which would have you believe it is a champion of woman and feminism, but instead reinforces the perverted desires of a depraved man. It is a movie filled with ideas, sights, and happenings so contrary to nature that they are ordinarily seen only in horror. Poor Things instead treats them with utter indifference and cavalierness, as it rejects truth, morality, and humanity.

  First, the film is a most thinly veiled Lolita story, in which a clearly adolescent mind…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Apr 2024

  An interesting and engaging demonstration of what we have to lose, and how our time honored institutions, no matter how imperfect, might be the only thing holding us together.

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  The Curse of Captain Silverbeard 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2021

  An absolute must see. A cinematic experience that must be viewed on the big screen.

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  Cloud Atlas 2012

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2021

  A severely underrated movie. The Wachowskis have done incredible things with their source material. David Mitchell, the author of the novel, had previously said he thought a film adaptation would be impossible. Instead, Cloud Atlas pulled off the rare feat of becoming as good or better as the book.

  The six story lines of Cloud Atlas give it the joy of a short story anthology (e.g. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs). Each story maintains a narrative style and genre distinctively…

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