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  Blow-Up 1966

  Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Fascinating time capsule, and perhaps the most vivid of Antonioni’s mysteries. All-timer ending! Need to rewatch to grasp more…

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  Secrets & Lies 1996

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Well you are family, ain’t ya? I’m proud of ya.

  Whenever things got too intense, I just looked at Paul’s face for a laugh. Still made me cry approximately 30 times … Mike Leigh !!

Popular reviews

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  Light and the Sufferer 2008

  ★★ Watched 17 Dec 2020

  paul dano smokes crack with a cgi panther alien

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  The Singer Not the Song 1961

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2022

  “So you love this priest so much you would put yourself between him and me.”

  “It must be heartbreaking to fall in love with a man you can never have. I understand this.”

  So Anacleto is just canonically gay. This entire movie is? Like there’s literally no other reading. Fascinating character and quite a surprising genre film with layers and layers of subtext and a gay “forbidden love” plot BARELY disguised as a straight one. I love an antagonist who…

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