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Recent reviews

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  Ju-on: The Grudge 2 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 May 2024 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Sea Prince and the Fire Child 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2024

  Wow, how do I even start with this one. Absolutely not what I thought I was signing up for when I picked this Sanrio movie, but moving nonetheless. This film is so insanely gorgeous that there were multiple times my breath was taken away, mostly by Fire Queen Themis but she is far from the last beautiful ethereal elemental person to show up. 

  I haven’t been in a great place lately in my personal life, and watching this movie progress…

Popular reviews

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  Garfield Gets Real 2007

  Watched 21 Mar 2022 3

  This movie upsets me. For a few reasons.

  This was Jim Davis’s return to writing on-screen Garfield after like 15 years. I don’t know how meticulously he wrote this, but the writing is probably the best part. This is a really strong movie conceptually, especially for me. I’m a sucker for a “parallel world where fiction is reality” storyline, and I’ve always loved comic strips, so a world where comic strip characters coexist? Sign me up. The characters are also…

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  Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope Tour 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jul 2021

  I rarely ever write reviews on here— I much prefer the list function— but this film, concert, experience, necessitated that I break that convention because I have so much to talk about. I also think concert films are one of the medium's most boring genres (I just don't like live music that I'm not physically present for; that includes live versions of songs), and yet this is one of the best if not the very best movie I've ever seen.…

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