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The Blues Brothers 1980
My entire brain is comprised of these little bits of wiring that form the words 'We're on a mission from God'.
A movie truly beyond insanity, a movie that pays homage to blues and to the city of Chicago like no other, a movie that me and my brother collapsed sideways over in fits of laughter roughly 30-something years after it's initial release. We can both quote it verbatim, word for word, accents, intonation.
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Better Man 2024
Actually crazy. I love movies. LOVE movies. Movies are nuts. The musician biopic is so saturated by tragic stories of addiction and self esteem struggles vs the limelight but what a way to transform the genre into something imaginative and totally off the wall. I was raised by a music-snob anti-boyband father, never really got into Take That or Robbie Williams, and actually looked down at it all somewhat. Thought that I was holier than thou for being 12 and…
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Gigi 1958
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I can't remember the first time I watched Gigi. My parents had the VHS, my mother had been fond of the movie since she was small, and so it was. This film holds the kind of cognitive recognition in my brain as when you find an old children's book you used to read, when you hear the voice of your old babysitter, when you taste or smell kids toothpaste.
Gigi is so intensely wired into my personal mainframe, and yet…
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