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  Patrice: The Movie 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Days after seeing this, I have recommended this movie to at least a dozen different people and would jump at the chance to rewatch it.  I was hooked from the jump: the partner Ice skating performance where she twirls around her partner in a wheelchair to a cover of Carmina Burana’s O Fortuna is unforgettable.  There might be other documentaries that provide more information about the state of disability rights for employment, housing, etc., but this movie excels at highlighting…

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  SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  Andre3000 says “one of the greatest things about Sly is he’s letting us peer into something very free”.  I couldn’t agree more.  This movie about the originators of funk, originators of drum machine sounds gave me such a thirst for watching the source material concert footage and interviews.  I could watch their early concert footage over and over again, when the whole band sounds so incredibly tight it’s almost like the recorded version.  
   Sly is a hell of an…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★ Watched 26 Oct 2024 1

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  Polyester 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2024

  "I never wanted to use macrame to kill!"

  Polyester is a perfect movie. The still of Divine looking equally confused and repulsed while reading Cahiers du Cinema belongs in a museum. Divine contorts her face with such agility, she goes from surprise to horror to despair to hope to being crushed in less than thirty seconds. This feels like John Waters wanted to do a twisted turn on a Douglas Sirk housewife melodrama and give Divine the role of a…