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Recent reviews

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  The Parenting 2025

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Brian Cox has fun possessed. But that doesn’t make the movie fun. Despite his best efforts! Cox innocent.

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  Ghost Stories 2017

  ★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  I remembered loving this. I can no longer connect to why. Hm.

Popular reviews

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  Carry-On 2024

  Watched 09 Dec 2024 6

  Making Taron do an American accent is a crime. He pulls it off. But why dull his shine!!

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  Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies 2020

  ★ Watched 16 Aug 2020 11

  Never once in the 130 minutes of the documentary Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies is the words “Male Gaze” uttered. Imagine that. Coined by film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975, the term is used to explore how an art form dominated by straight men portrays women in ways objectifying rather than humanizing. You’d think such a term would be useful, even essential, when discussing the history of nudity in the movies, considering much of that history was made by bared breasts and female buns. Infuriatingly, this is just one of many shocking omissions in this smugly saucy doc....

  
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