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Recent reviews

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  The 70s weren’t fucking around when it came to shocking cinema and this is no exception.  It’s transportive to another time and place: sweltering Summer, New York City, mid 70s.  The people, the traffic, the trash, the lights, the diners… it might as well be another dimension it’s such a different level of existence. 

  Taxi Driver takes you there and forces you to smell those steamy, stank ass New York streets

  Gorgeous on 4K UHD.  The colors are vibrant as fuck right through the hypnotic closing credits sequence.

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Wind-up monkey creates terror for twin brothers into adulthood.

  Loud and obnoxious.  Abrasive and ugly.  Unappealing characters wall-to-wall.  And the CGI was godawful so none of the death scenes had any impact except wondering why they didn’t aim for more practical effects.  

  Too cocky and smug in its comedy… but didn’t have any right to be.  The jokes were lazy: “Huhuhhuh.  Ninja swords.  Cool.”  

  I was not in the right frame of mind to sit through this on a Monday.

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2023 2

  A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.

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  Killing Me Softly 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Jun 2024

  This was fucking absurd.  It felt like a parody of erotic thrillers… but actually funny because there were parts where I laughed my ass off.  

  Glossy and has a nice music score.  

  I watched the unrated version.  You can access it as an “Extra” of the title on HBO Max, but I doubt it adds much.  There was a lot of bumping and grinding that went on a little long.  And I’m a perv.

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