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Recent reviews

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  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983

  Rewatched 21 Nov 2024

  For my pirate money this is the best iteration of Monty Python.

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  The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail 1945

  Watched 08 Nov 2024

  I saw this on YT with auto translated subtitles and so I didn’t really have any idea what was happening. 

  Interesting to see Kurosawa’s style emerging so strongly so early.

Popular reviews

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  Dogs in Space 1986

  Rewatched 26 Mar 2018

  Primarily, this movie is an essay on Hutchence's hair. 

  I imagine that Dogs in Space captures the atmosphere of the Melbourne punk scene in the late 70's, but for me it captures the romantic, filthy, solipsistic, optimistic, posturing, embarrassing life of middle class kids share-housing in the city in their early twenties. 

  It's boisterous and friendly, and loud and chaotic. It's a glimpse of a kind of Australian life that many live through and grow out of, and that's why it's on my list of movies about Australia. I listed it directly after Picnic at Hanging Rock, and they make an intriguing pair.

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  Watched 18 Dec 2017 8

  I'm sort of befuddled by how well this movie worked on me. I don't know what I responded to so strongly. If you described the movie to me I'd probably laugh. But I absolutely loved every second of it, even though I don't know why.

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