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  Contact 1997

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  She eventually got to watch a meteor shower with her father. 

  Or, well, a hologram-looking alien posing as him.. 
  Still made me a little teary-eyed.

  Embrace the loneliness?

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  The Swan 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  One, two, three, four, five, six!
  Seven, eight, nine, ten!”
  
  
  “Peter could see the gun coming up to the shoulder, now pointing straight at him.”

  “He could hear the crack of the rifle, an the zip of the bullet as it whistled past his head..”

  awkward silence

  “pschhow, swishh”

  This made me crack up. Wes, you’ve made my week

Popular reviews

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  Nobody 2021

  ★★★½ Rewatched 19 Feb 2025

  Rewatched this Bob Odenkirk masterpiece again, but this time with my mother. Ended with her growing a full beard. Pure testosterone

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  The Thing 1982

  ★★★ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025

  I’ve watched this movie as a kid which gave me relatively high hopes going in to it, but it ultimately fell short. While I understand it was made in the early 1980's & might have been considered as “edgy” or “cool” at the time, but the overly-graphic alien scenes were, in my opinion, comedic & unnecessarily excessive. Especially for a quote on quote serious horror film? Well, i found them to be.

  That said, I did enjoy the plot and music, as…

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