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No Other Land 2024
“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.
Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would…Translated from by -
The Birdcage 1996
💃🏻 we 🪩 are 👯 family 🕺🏼
This is hands down my family’s favorite, most quoted movie. I’ve lost count of how many times we watched it when I was growing up. It is the source material for so many of our inside jokes. When someone leaves, we say, “Don’t go, Mrs. Albert!” When we’re having a bad day, we say, “I was feeling so good this morning… *wheeze*” When dinner is ready, we do our best, “DINNER IS SERVED…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
A personal anecdote: when I was a teenager, I traveled to Germany with my parents, and during that trip, we went to (visited feels like the wrong word) Dachau, the first and longest operating Nazi concentration camp, upon which subsequent camps were modeled, and where SS guards were trained. I was a teenager, but even by then I had learned a staggering amount about the Holocaust, having read countless books about it from a young age and grown borderline obsessed…
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Monkey Man 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
me: I’m not really into action movies 🫤
Dev Patel: *makes an action movie where he says “you like that?” and “good girl” and stabs a guy in the neck with his mouth as a Boney M. song plays in the background*
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