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Recent reviews

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  Fire of Love 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2023

  This is what we like to call an Alik 5

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  Hearts and Minds 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jun 2023

  This film came out in the spring of 1974, before the Second Indochina War had even fully ended, and there’s a couple things to consider with that context in mind.

  For one thing, the film was made for an audience who was already familiar with the war as it had been reported in the American media. Popular histories and popular culture in the years since 1974, this film included, have given the modern American a picture of the war much…

Popular reviews

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Nov 2022

  Every town’s got the:
  -Lovable dullarse
  -Bitter old man
  -Girl who’s way too good for this place
  -Creepy freaky little weirdo guy
  -Godawful cop
  -Old crone (possibly supernatural)
  -World’s Nosiest Woman
  -Priest who can’t stand these gobshites
  -Miniature donkey

  Which are you???

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  Elvis 2022

  ★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2023

  I’d call this a feast for the eyes but it’s really more like a “The Whale pizza scene” for the eyes.

  I respect the sheer audacity on display here. Butler puts his all into his performance as well.

  But this felt like an honest to god 2 hour 40 minute TikTok, an hagiography of a man who caused spontaneous orgasms and had so many black friends, you guys. 2 hours and 40 minutes of The Penguin gaslighting me that I killed…

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