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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★ Rewatched 28 Mar 2025

  The first time I watched this one, I would say this was “lesser PTA”, now I just think it’s bad. It makes no sense that Alana Haim’s 25-year-old Alana woukd fall for, or really waste time with, Cooper Hoffman’s Gary, and she truly has no inner life, no interests outside of Gary’s suffocating world. And where last view in I thought Gary’s character was annoyingly precocious, now I think he’s destined to be a fucking predator, decorating future #MeToo wanted…

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  Can't Stop the Music 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  What do the stars even mean on these Letterboxd reviews? I mean, if you're reading this you either know me or you're thinking I'm being facetious or ironic or are some kind of Village People fanatic, or a combination of all of those. Honestly, I think rating movies with stars makes little sense. At least here, I'm not being ironic (and I'm certainly no VP superfan, though after this movie that seems like fun) because the five stars reflects the…

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  Boogie Nights 1997

  ★ Watched 03 Mar 2025 6

  BOOGIE NIGHTS IS AWFUL!!!! THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD IT SELLS OUT EVERY TIME THE TRYLON SHOWS IT AND SO I CAN'T SEE IT SO I HATE IT! TO HELL WITH YOU PTA!!!

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Mar 2025

  Probably my favorite work fantasy comes from Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd." It would be to have a little office with a big window on the Paramount lot during the golden days of the studio system, plugging away at screenplays with collaborators. I wouldn't need an Oscar, wouldn't at all desire fame, would need just enough money to get a little house in LA, and I'd probably have a few pulpy mysteries under my belt that I'd published with Ace or…

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