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  BABYMETAL LEGEND - 43 The Movie 2024

  Watched 28 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  His Motorbike, Her Island 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  JAPANUARY 2025 🇯🇵 • Film #19

  "By the time something from the past is buried, another story has already begun."

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  Yes, there's Zhang Yimou. Yes, there's Christopher Doyle. But, even among the masters, I'm not convinced that anyone wields colour quite like Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Popular reviews

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  Happy New Year 2014

  ★★ Watched 26 Apr 2020

  ME: I have a huge soft spot for Farah and her best-in-the-biz end credits, her love of abs, silliness and cinema, but this is pretty unfunny, presents a sickly, hyper-glossy kind of cinematography, contains some untamed nationalism (to a point where there's a line in a song suggesting not to question India's authorities as to why millions of people in the country remain in poverty) and is actually sort of racist. I don’t think I’m enjoying -

  ALSO ME [dancing, hands in the air, clapping]: INDIAWAALE!

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  Cats 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2019 8

  Something was unearthed in me this fateful night; I revelled in the way Jason Derulo pranced into every ghastly little number.

  LET'S DANCE!

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  FOOTNOTES:

  - I was quite drunk when I wrote this "review". I don't know if that makes it more or less sincere.
  - This was the last film I watched in my 20s. What an equally hilarious / pathetic milestone.