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  General Della Rovere 1959

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  The subtitles on this one were quite curious... Half the time there was no attempt to subtitle the German dialogue, but when there was it was on top of existing German-to-Italian subtitles. Sometimes the English subtitles were moved up the screen a bit to avoid overlapping the Italian ones, but not always.

  Visually as well, they were really scratchy and seemingly drawn on frame by frame, though in a pretty consistent typeface. Would love to know more about the process…

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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  MIFF called this a preview but it's been out for a month already? So it's just a view.

  Saw the trailer for this in front of a bunch of other movies and wasn't too impressed, but I really liked this actually.

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  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Nov 2020 1

  Fucking gorgeous movie, this is. Cinematography, blocking, grading and effects are all top notch. Not that you'd expect anything less from Alfonso.

  Obviously this one really set the tone for all the movies to come, though sadly those end up being little more than poor imitations.

  In my mind the first two movies have this distinctive kinda plasticky look to their CGI which this movie significantly improves on, but this is actually less the case then I remember. Buckbeak actually…

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  Dream Team 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Aug 2024

  Stroke my ass
  
  Had a great time with this! Wasn't prepared for how camp and horny it was, but loved it for that. Good choice for a 9pm session, definitely not too much missed by being half awake.

  Understandably a bit of a niche one, as evidenced by the number of people who got up and left (the entire back row?).