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Recent reviews

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  Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged

  ★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  this is a pretty kooky bit of history. it was made by some evangelical christians back in 2001 who were evidently trying to hawk an “Internet Filter” that promised to somehow block your kids from seeing any websites related to witchcraft and pornography for only $269.99 a year! 

  their sales tactic? producing fear-mongering videos about how the Harry Potter books are giving your children specific instructions to cast curses, commune with evil spirits, and shape-shift into animals. because all of…

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  Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special 1988

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2024

  If you haven't seen this, it's delightful -- and free to watch in HD on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRvtOGLzpvE

Popular reviews

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  The Company of Strangers 1990

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2021

  This is the anti-Lord of the Flies

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  Hamilton 2020

  ★ Watched 05 Jul 2020 1

  When a piece of media can be enjoyed equally by neoliberal NYC elites, conversion therapy-touting conservatives like Mike Pence, and tumblr kids who spent history class drawing anime characters...

  You know there is something deeply wrong.