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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2025

  Dylan does what nintendon’t. 

  Someone who liked Wicked told me the whole thing is a kind of musical tease building up to the show-stopping defying gravity track, which felt lost on me as someone who didn’t like the songs. 

  This movie offers a kind of blues-ed up version of that routine where instead we slowly build up to the Newport performance of Like a Rolling Stone. As someone who found musical heroes in Woody Guthrie, Blind Willie McTell, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’…

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  Eraserhead 1977

  Rewatched 23 Jan 2025

  Interior design tips from Better Homes and Garden’s special “Eraserhead” issue: 

  Put soil and hay around your studio apartment in lieu of a backyard 

  keep metal objects (e.g., coins) submerged in a saucepan of water. Doing so will help you save a few pennies—no-one wants to get their sleeve wet just for a hot cross bun. 

  Don’t waste money on single-use furniture like baby cots; just convert your hard timber workdesk into a napping palace with a 1/4 size pillow and some gauze.

Popular reviews

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  Mahjong Heroes 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Sep 2020

  I have no clue how to play mahjong but this is a god-tier film.

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  Caught in Time 2020

  ★★ Watched 15 Dec 2020 1

  Kind of incredible that you can just end a movie with the line “as you know, China’s police have built one of the safest nations on earth”

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