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  Dog Man 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants and Super Diaper Baby were essential childhood staples for me. They're some of the first fictional characters I learned to draw, and I like to think my sense of humor (and persistent lack of maturity) were calibrated by Pilkey's work far before I leaned into shows/sitcoms to become the walking HR violation I am today. Dog Man, however, came way too late for me; the first book in the series debuted in 2016, a mere year…

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  The Roundup: Punishment 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  When The Roundup: No Way Out came out in 2023, I was probably a little too hard on it. To be fair, while the third entry in the eponymous The Roundup franchise was yet another enjoyable action flick, the general formula was, well, already getting pretty formulaic and predictable. To make matters worse, immediately after watching The Roundup: No Way Out, I also belatedly read a July 2022 Ma Dong-seok Deadline interview, where he said the franchise would eventually be…

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  The Host 2006

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  Pretty much essential viewing no matter what kind of person (or Han River fish monster) you are.

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  BONUS: Like the Summer Olympics just for South Korea's women's…

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2024

  Ambitious, pretentious, fantastical, timely, timeless, ludicrous, inexplicable, entertaining, maddening, tantalizing, titillating, cringy, cheesy, misguided, majestic, unique, sensational, batshit insane.

  Those are just a few of the words that come to mind. Coherent sentences do not. Maybe it's because I'm battling some kind of ruthless cold. Maybe it's because I decided to watch Megalopolis after midnight on a Tuesday night leading into Wednesday morning.

  Maybe it's because I'm still daydreaming about Wow Platinum (Aubrey Plaza) asking me to kiss her ass.…

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