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  Heathers 1989

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Apr 2023

  Always had some kinda vague idea that this film compared favourably to If... insofar as it actually ends up rejecting the nihilistic-fascistic impulse that is the conjoined underside to the stifling oppressive educational systems they set themselves in, and consequently the wider society those educations produce (yes, the end of If... is fascist, unfortunately, formless violence aimed more at the annihilation of the self than the construction of an emancipated system - Malcolm McDowell even repeatedly proclaims that the world…

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  Crimes of the Future 1970

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Sep 2022

  Carried hard by the location but that location is really really good.

Popular reviews

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  Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2021 1

  Somehow absolute kino. Probably the most ephemeral of the Kerberos trilogy, and that's saying something, this film is really carried by its atmosphere and location. I absolutely loved the first half of the film, even though it mostly just consists of aimless, dialogue-less wandering through early 90's Taiwan, beneath a hazy, dreamlike score. The music that plays over the climax though is perhaps, I think, a bit poorly chosen, and kind of compares for the worse to a similar sequence…

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  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Mortal Fight 1980

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Aug 2021

  This one gets an extra half star for the Star Trek fighting and Watson crying at the end — these Soviet male friendships be hittin different 😳😳