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  Gregory's Girl 1980

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Rising out of the cornball humor and my inability to understand thick Scottish accents, this film slowly won me over with sweetness.

  It is no surprise that many of the actors are from the same youth theater. The comfort they have around eachother adds unmeasurable value to this film. I'm a sucker for any film that prioritizes the relationship between cast over isolated casting choices. Combine that with the concise and crisp cinematography (the shot that rotates down to Gregory and Susan on the grass was lovely), you forget you're watching a film with a shoestring budget.

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  Eephus 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Warm, lighthearted, and sometimes excruciating.

  Staunchly not a sports movie despite being entirely about a baseball game.

  Rigorously unsentimental.

  I really enjoyed how this movie glanced around the events of the game, impartial to the end, only concerned with the game as something to do. By the time the sun sets, I was grinding my teeth at the lack of dramatic center, the monotone, molasses pace that continues throughout. However, it is only through this uncentered style that the film…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★ Watched 19 May 2024

  In dialogue, there's a story that says outright that if you foreclose fantasy from your reality, you are the walking dead. If you look inside, all you see are reflections, and to deny that is to deny your freedom. I can get down with this. There are many great films that explore this , and come to similar conclusions. However, the film doesn't sink it's teeth into this until the very end. It doesn't come to conclusions, the conclusions burst…

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  All You Need Is Death 2023

  ★★ Watched 05 Oct 2023

  Some really great work here is various departments. The set design of the old woman's home is dripping with evil. From the dark exterior with blood red windows, to the eclectic collection of puppets, you don't really see this level of madness infecting a familiar space outside of 70s horror.

  Additionally, the sound design is fresh, free of many of the tropes of modern horror.

  The soundtrack, while heavy, succeeds tenfold whenever the story does.

  Unfortunately, the story fatally shys…

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