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  Sorcerer 1977

  Watched 24 Mar 2024

  Okay I do see what you all were on about now

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  Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros 2023

  Watched 02 Mar 2024

  After watching THE TASTE OF THINGS, I had the bright idea to make a meal for a small group to accompany this film on my birthday. Truly did not imagine how much time several French guys could spend arguing about sourcing fish.

  I should have known, though. My personal connection to the subject is that my grandparents were friends with Jean and Pierre Troisgros (the generation before the one shown here). Jean, while visiting them at a Poconos lake house,…

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  John Mulaney: Baby J 2023

  Watched 25 Apr 2023

  Seems like Mulaney doesn't want to do confessional comedy as much as he wants to keep being really good at telling funny stories, and this is the stuff that happened to him lately. That's his choice and we should respect it.

  [I try and fail to stop talking]

  However, that choice leaves him in an uncomfortable place, where the funniest parts are the most self-critical, but a lot of the ostensibly darkest stuff is sanded down--something he makes explicit with…

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  The Irishman 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Apr 2023

  The beginning feels shaky, though it's covered up by the flashback structure giving it a sense of direction. A soldier brings violence home with him, slowly getting inducted into the antisocial solidarity of the mob. That's something we've seen before, so the question is, how's this rise and fall gonna go? You almost think, my God, it's going to be Netflix does GOODFELLAS after all. But once Frank meets up with Hoffa the whole thing clicks. He didn't have friends…

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