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  Dheepan 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Dheepan, the care taker becomes the undertaker. 

  The unique immigrant experience propelled the story. The confusing dynamics of the community slowed it down and changed its direction. It was the subtleties of the relationship that made it worth while.

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  Down the Rabbit Hole 2024

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Quiero un hipopotamo para Navidad. 

  Tochtli has a room dedicated to his hats. He has his own personal zoo, complete with an endangered Brazilian woodpecker. He has his own private teacher feeding him knowledge of the world. But he doesn’t have a world outside of his drug cartel encampment. His father keeps him safe and loves him. But it’s only a matter of time before his father’s safety net falls away. 

  Caro keeps the movie quirky but grounded most of…

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  Pig 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Aug 2021

  The transcendent memory of food

  When Rob makes the last meal from memory that Darius’s wife remembers, the movie pivots our expectations from vengeful Nick to inspirational Nick and it was a nice twist. Rob was an artist after all, not a hit man. There were false trails that would lead you to believe that he was going down the other pathway, particularly when he verbally eviscerates the insecure chef in his restaurant. 

  Sarnoski beautifully connects the ascension of cooking…

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  Halloween 1978

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Oct 2020

  Halloween’s greatest virtue is that it makes you the killer. 

  Through Carpenter’s brilliant POV camerawork, you stalk the victims, you breath heavily when you are about to strike, and you wear the William Shatner mask when you kill the horny, hapless teenagers.  Isn’t that what we want to do when we go to the theater, to become someone else?  To live their lives?  To wear their masks?  To do what we cannot do in our own lives?

  Three other side…

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