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Recent reviews

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  Linda Linda Linda 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  I remember in my secondary school years visiting the rehearsal rooms at the end of the day. At the time, I was invested in becoming a bass player and wanted to develop my skills with my friends. It’s strange to reflect on those times as I made songs that are now a blur in my mind. Somewhere within my drafts lie the lyrics of those pieces. The little fragments I do remember aren’t exactly favourable, but I don’t think that…

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  Twice a Man 1963

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  The temporary exposed at the face of what could've been reciprocated. Each inflection of bodily expression is at the cost of time. Between interaction lies the desires to exist under total transparency. Yet, it's the heart of shared experience that makes this a positive endeavor. To contribute to public discourse is to breathe. It's interesting to see that realisation broken in its continuity. Perhaps that speaks to a greater wholeness in queer identity. There isn't a beginning or end that…

Popular reviews

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  Here and Elsewhere 1976

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Oct 2023

  The approach to demonstrating empathy towards the Palestinian victims against the genocide that continues to pressure them is shown to be at a cost to how we learn about such conflicts. All expressions of film act as documentaries in not just the conveyance of information but the more significantly the relationship between the body of work and the elements at display. Noise, and by extension the commitments of our own lives, prevent us from focusing solely on the conflicts that…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★ Watched 05 Jun 2023 4

  My underwhelming reaction to this film relates to a confusion of mine of why the "multiverse" concept has been continuously revisited in these recent Spider-Man films. The motion that it has been continuously employed is to navigate the narrative across the spectacle of references and an idealism of the greater comic book canon. This feels fruitless to me and I don't really see why this film is being praised as an exception to the rule.

  If anything the canonization that…