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  Blue Velvet 1986

  Watched 08 Feb 2025 1

  David Lynch’s twisted sandbox.

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  Flight Risk 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  Mel works the budget constraints to give us a one-set action thrill with touching moments of redemption. In the face of ultimate evil (deriving joy from hurting others at no personal gain), Mel shows mercy. Mel is a big Michelle Obama fan! He won’t lower himself to the mistreatment he has received. Glad he’s back, I hope this warm-up galvanizes him to shock the system again with Passion 2.

Popular reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ½ Watched 02 Mar 2024 26

  Portent and Dread, Inc. is here to assist you with all your secular needs. Are you or a loved one recovering from a serious case of Faith in God? Look no further, this brand new liberal product will suck the soul out of you for the cheap price of $25.99 a ticket. Come on down and enjoy the “religion is the weapon by which to control the masses through fear” event of the year! We promise to leave you feeling desolate and in despair or your money back.

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  Solaris 1972

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Sep 2021 1

  A Lesson in Cosmological Hierarchy: Putting Man in His Place

  Cinema’s quintessential reproach of the modernist religion of scientism (which inevitably takes its throne in the absence of religious belief) through a revival of the phenomenological Christian outlook—most explicitly and alarmingly relevant to today in the specifics of Hari’s initial, needle-induced demise.

  The divine object of desire of sci-fi has been an amalgamation of secular man’s attempts to rationalize the transcendent. Surreal worlds, hostile to human nature, where technology or…