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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Mediocre as far as Lynch goes, dead-on accurate as a depiction of what it feels like to have a migraine.

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  We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Nov 2023

  It's not loneliness if your entire world consists only and exclusively of you. An attic room in the dead of winter, a stolen camera, a knife, a psychotic break, a life closing in on the end of itself before it's even had a chance to start. Falling asleep in the glow of the screen, falling apart in real time- I am far away enough from seventeen that it all feels like a half-forgotten nightmare but some things never really leave…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2024

  There is a really fantastic Quentin Tarantino interview, filmed shortly after the release of Kill Bill Volume I, where this pearl-clutching TV host (named Jan) demands to know why he keeps making such absurdly violent movies. They go back and forth for a few minutes until Tarantino, completely exasperated, basically throws back his head and howls "BECAUSE IT'S SO MUCH FUN, JAN!" And you know what? He was absolutely right. I guess maybe there are some sick freaks out there…

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  Big Shark 2023

  ★★★ Watched 29 Apr 2023

  A weirdly competent (well- competent by Tommy standards) effort from Tommy Wiseau. In a departure from the convoluted psychodrama/unresolved cancer subplots of The Room, Big Shark's plot is refreshingly straightforward: there's a really fucking big shark, it's eating people in downtown New Orleans, and three heroic local firefighters are out to kill it and save the city. Or like, hypothetically, at least. Our protagonists (played by Tommy and two dudes who are not Tommy; was bombed when I watched this…

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