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Recent reviews

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  Boiling Point 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  Stephen Graham, la’, the absolute legend that you ARE… every bit of praise this month is yours, mate. Sweep every award, I mean it, ya. But for fuck’s sake, don’t ever scare me like that again. Me nerves are shot. 😰

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  The Chair 2021

  ★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025 1

  FUCKER IN CHARGE OF YOU FUCKING FUCKS. 
  …or, Let’s Make Sandra Oh Disappear Behind a Sea of White Male Mediocrity!

   “Information is endlessly available to us.
  Where shall wisdom be found?”

  Sandra Oh is on the damn poster, but you wouldn’t know its about her watching this. She’s back-seated (ironically) to the background, for a middle-aged white guy with a chip on his shoulder and zero self-awareness. Maybe it’s a metaphor for the institutionalized erasure of WOC in academia… but,…

Popular reviews

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  Center Stage 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Jun 2024

  DIRECTOR’S CUT: The most genuine female biopic of all-time.

  Should a movie star vanish at the peak of her brilliance? 

  "Her private life and hardship are hardly known 
  None of her colleagues helped her in her lawsuit
  A sentimental girl like her must’ve taken a pessimistic view of life 
  She never turned herself into a cold and shrewed women 
  She took a serious view of life
  When she got half-drunk she’d ask her friends: 
  Can I be considered good?"

  History…

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  Manhunter 1986

  ★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2024

  Fear is not what you owe me. You owe me awe!

  "You are becoming. What is it you think you're becoming? The answer is in the way you use the mirrors. What do the mirrors make you dream you're becoming?"

  You’ve seen these films, haven’t you my man.

  This one’s definitely guilty of being all style, no substance but when a film looks and sounds this good, I’m more than happy to soak up the neon glow any day of…