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  Leave Her to Heaven 1945

  Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Proto Gone Girl

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  Welcome to L.A. 1976

  Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Objectively a bad movie and yet, I watched it. There are so many good bits but it fails to come together in a coherent or cohesive way. The best bits? Sissy Spacek newly installed as a housekeeper insisting on vacuuming topless, Lauren Hutton’s wit and grace, Viveca Lindfors, Geraldine Chaplin, helicopter shots of 1970s LA, fun and even insightful at times observations about LA…..and yet, and yet, and yet. 

  I’ve never seen a movie that was simultaneously so horny and…

Popular reviews

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  Swept Away 2002

  Watched 27 Mar 2024

  Truly not as terrible as critics made it out to be. Truly mind boggling how Madonna, magnetism personified, is such a compelling “performer” and yet such stale actor. In Swept Away you can’t take your eyes off of her, but as an actor she mostly leaves you unconvinced, feeling nothing.

  This is true throughout the film with the exception of one scene in the second half of the film where she confronts Adriano Giannini in their island shack. Madonna wakes…

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  Kajillionaire 2020

  Watched 25 Dec 2024

  I didn’t know what I was getting into. If you don’t have these parents this film might feel like a practical joke but if you have these parents this movie is like a beacon in an avalanche. Someone will hear and dig you out, if only to remind you it’s them not you that’s the problem. Merry Christmas.

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