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  Puppet Master 1989

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I am currently half watching this in a hotel room in the desert on MeTV presented by House of Svengoolie and I kinda feel like this is the best and only way to see this absolute fever dream. Potentially the best night of my life.

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  Warfare 2025

  Watched 13 Mar 2025 2

  “When they answer the call for their country… know what you’re asking them to do.” - Ray Mendoza

  I was fortunate to attend an A24 preview screening with a mixture of press and veterans, and Ray was very open about how directing a particular scene in the film triggered his own PTSD. To say that the film is an unflinching portrayal of trauma feels almost too small for the scope of what it truly conveys - both the minutiae of war…

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  Five Times Two 2004

  ★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2020

  Like that time I watched the “Before” trilogy backwards, except this time with more rape and less ambiance.

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  Portrait of Jennie 1948

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  The cinematography in this is so good it literally killed a man (the honest to God actual cinematographer… no, I’m not kidding). Some of the shots in this are so gorgeous they’re nearly incomprehensible.

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