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  Flipped 2010

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Formulaic, overbearing, ableist. The worst fucking narrative structure known to man. Horrific voice-over and dumb PowerPoint transitions. They even fucked over Anthony Edwards with all that shit, stilted dialogue. Get this movie away from me!!

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  Hoosiers 1986

  ★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Good old fashioned basketball! 🏀

  Replete with all the cliches of the genre but honestly, I didn’t really mind too much. Especially since they basically established all of them to begin with. The script isn’t much to write home about but is still solid with some nice lines here and there (“I love you guys” being my favorite). I’ve always loved Barbara Hershey, and there are some other solid performances in here, including by Dennis Hopper in an Oscar-nominated role.…

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jun 2021

  Scavenger Hunt #75 | Prompt #22

  The ending struck me silent. Everyone involved in this was a genius. Billy Wilder’s direction is incredible per usual - that one shot after Betty leaves the mansion and the camera tilts up from Joe’s face to see Norma peering down over the landing…. *chefs kiss*

  What’s there to say about a movie that’s been discussed nonstop since its release? All I know is that as someone that grew up on Old Hollywood cinema,…

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  Daytime Revolution 2024

  ★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2024 1

  A case of amazing material and fascinating history being squandered in the hands of an unfocused team. Lacks a coherent and clear vision, but is a serviceable time capsule of John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosting The Mike Douglas Show in 1972. Their agenda - to reach middle-class Americans (or housewives, as they say) and inspire more sociopolitical engagement/liberate marginalized folks - is sorely underdeveloped as a thematic thread, which continually baffled me as the film stretched on. 

  Some really…