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  Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Much more concise than the book, but that means it loses a bunch of anecdotes about insanely freaky CIA guys, and the charm of Tom O'Neill traipsing around Los Angeles trying to talk to Venice Beach weirdos who may have known Bobby Beausoleil. Still interesting to see the great Erroll Morris grapple with translating the story cinematically. I would like to see Bill Hader play Vincent Bugliosi in something

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  The Master 2012

  Watched 09 Mar 2025

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  Was thinking how weird it is that this movie is so underrated, but I guess Daniel Plainview's quest for more cash, more deals, more money, and more business deals is objectively more relatable than The Master's quest to presumably control the minds of future celebs? Not to me, though! When he was making that bizarre speech about the dragon and everyone was laughing heartily like they got it, I said out loud, "That is what I want out of…

Popular reviews

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  Porco Rosso 1992

  Watched 07 Jul 2022

  If Miyazaki's gonna make a movie about an Italian ace fighter pilot pig, he's gonna make sure it's the best Italian ace fighter pilot pig movie possible, and he's not really gonna wink at you about it either. The pig is gonna have a tragic love triangle and be forsaken from Heaven

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  Glass Onion 2022

  Watched 26 Nov 2022

  People talk about Rian Johnson like he's this Cringe Lib, but his movies culminate in the destruction of a casino, the reallocation of a fortune of inherited wealth, and the extremely tight thing that happens at the end of this movie