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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2024

  “There might be a public outcry for a while but then you know what happens people forget they don’t remember they don’t care. It’s just gonna be another everyday common tragedy.” - William Hale

  “We’re just barely living in a sundown”- Mollie Buckhart

  There’s a reason so many believe in the myth of bodies in the cement of the Hoover Dam- though we are loath to admit it, Americans implicitly know many of our achievements are built on a foundation…

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  Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Oct 2024

  Some films are like a punch to the face. It’s a good feeling. Rarely does a project come along that hits all over your body for the entire duration. This is frenzied filmmaking, held together through sustained energy. Tetsuo: The Iron Man is like driving through an hour-long carwash full of fists, an assault on the senses that doesn’t let up. This would be trying if the approach wasn’t so electric. 

  Tetsuo: The Iron Man uses every production component-from story to sound- to disorient its audience and heighten the extremity of change its two leads undergo. 

  Full review: www.secretmovieclub.com/blog/body-horror-technology-and-you-part-ii-your-future-is-metal-by-joey-povinelli

Recent reviews

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  Here 2024

  ★½ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  What a miserable film.
  If you’re going to do this gimmick, don’t change time periods. It should take place in real time, no cuts and the narrative should be excruciating to complement the restricted form. This was the cowards way out.

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  The Spoilers 1930

  ★★½ Watched 03 Dec 2024

  Not sure where this film will stand historically but “son of a caribou” is said multiple times by a character named “Slapjack” and goddamn it that’s worth something.

Popular reviews

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  Magnolia 1999

  ★★★★★ Added

  (Oct 23-27, 2018)

  Magnolia has obvious flaws... it's over three hours when it shouldn't be, some of its most compelling characters are forgotten about in the second half, and lands on a conclusion that is both heavy handed and opaque. The flaws of Magnolia would be tough to ignore if they weren't in the service of a work so interesting.

  Paul Thomas Anderson (or PT Anderson as he's occasionally credited or PTA for people who are in so much of…

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Nov 2022 1

  Taxi Driver is a definitive American picture showing our constant state of reaction- a nation built on effect with minimal cause. Voters historically ditch the dominant party at midterms because we don’t have unity of vision or coherent politics, our people only worry about survival. Taxi Driver characterizes the central tension of the American urban experience: an environment that empowers instant and niche fulfillment running against our founding Puritan sensibilities, “the way things should be,” and all that. Only in…