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  First Person Plural 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Apr 2022

  A pretty intense personal story by the author here as she grapples with her identity and who she really is. Taken from her family at a young age and essentially sold against her will to a family of adoptive parents. She grapples with her identity as a korean woman who doesnt know her own family or language or culture. She lives in the US where she was always and will always be seen by many as different, yet when she…

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  The Alpinist 2021

  ★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2022

  A man who led a life that seems completely foreign to my own. Taking on the most thrilling and risky rockfaces and mountains that he could find and doing it with an even-keeled expression the entire time. It felt like the documentary sputtered at times because it kept going back to the filmmakers tryin to find out where Marc-Andre went because he just left without contacting them to go climb somewhere else.

  Still its a doc that offers some insights…

Popular reviews

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  Bottle Shock 2008

  ★★½ Watched 16 Apr 2020

  I love wine and I love the history of wine so this really should have been right up my alley. It was a decent slice of comfort cinema and pretty fun in parts. Alan Rickman in particular knows the type of film this is and plays his role accordingly. The weird love triangle with Pine-Taylor-Rodriguez was very odd and none of the romantic decisions made any sense nor did they matter at all to the larger plot.

  But this did make me really want some wine, which is always a good thing.

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  What's Up, Doc? 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Apr 2020

  Barbara Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn in a Peter Bogdanovich ode to old screwball comedies...can't believe I hadn't seen this before. O'Neal plays a great straight man and it's a great to see an early Madeline Kahn performance, but the real star here is of course Streisand. Her chemistry with O'Neal is great and her comedic timing is superb. The farcical scenarios are reminiscent of great screwball's of the 30's and 40's and the Hotel destruction scene and the chase scene through the streets of SF are hilarious.

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