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  The Grandmother 1970

  Watched 16 Jan 2025

  RIP David Lynch

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  The Hard Part Begins 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  "In this business the worst thing you can be is not bad." Would make a fascinating (and depressing) double feature with Inside Llewyn Davis, on the soul-crushing curse of the good-not-great.

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  Grey Roads 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 01 May 2021

  Probably wouldn't have picked this at Hot Docs if it wasn't directed by my mom's former student.
  Glad I did because it's kinda entirely my shit. Small towns in disarray and competing visions of masculinity wrapped up in some melancholic, occasionally otherworldly black and white photography.

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  Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021

  ★ Watched 21 Mar 2021

  Just in case you didn't understand that this was a superhero movie for grown ups in the previous three hours and forty minutes, near the close of this film, the Joker offers to jerk the Batman off.

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