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  Romy and Michele's High School Reunion 1997

  Rewatched 07 Mar 2025

  Before you consider watching this movie, you have to ask yourself a very important question:

  Do you like silliness?

  This is like the odyssey, but silly, girlie-pop, and also nothing like the odyssey.

  It’s an epic, in the traditional sense of the word.
  A long, weaving journey (figuratively; their route is pretty direct, and it’s a seven hour drive from LA to Tucson. Not an easy drive, but a smidge easier than Odysseus’ journey) that takes them to their ten…

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  Anora 2024

  Watched 06 Mar 2025

  One of my weaknesses is that I avoid movies I know are going to be sad…

  I’m a f*****, and I haven’t even seen Brokeback Mountain.
  I know, I know.
  But, honestly, sapphic movies are better.
  Everyone go and watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
  It’s really sad, but it’s also very French, very gay, very romantic, and a very intelligent examination of the impact men have on the lives of women, even when they’re not physically present. Also,…

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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 25 Feb 2025

  I know I often compose these thoughtful considerations of film with a silly, light, playful tone. I love prose.

  But, both a mixture of the film itself, feelings about myself, and how the movie causes one to reflect, I feel like a more serious tone for this examination is deserving.

  There have been tales about the struggles of getting older since, well- probably since we as a species have been telling stories.

  Demi Moore here gives us a layered and…

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  Challengers 2024

  Watched 27 Jan 2025

  I cannot stop thinking about this movie.
  I think about it every single day.
  I’m positive it has rewired my brain chemistry.

  To be honest, I’m months late.
  I heard that it had hype, and I was worried the movie would be over-serious, the sexual tension would feel forced, and it would be sad.

  I could not have been more wrong.

  The whole movie has an electricity, an energy to it, and it’s palpable. The characters make surprising choices, the…

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