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  Conclave 2024

  ★★½ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  Well shot, well acted, and kind of absurd. Doesn't really pull it off....
  Maybe if it had lent into it's comedy elements more the twists and turns would have been more convincing

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  The King 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  The masculine urge to conquer France

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  Penda's Fen 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2021

  Oh for the Old Ways...
  Often when you are growing up and trying to work out exactly who what and why you are people look in numerous different places: the particular beauty of this film is this is about a troubled young lad, somewhat of an outcast, seeing and searching for himself among those things most immediate and natural to him; first his protestant upbringing, in those he looks up to and down upon, in music, and ultimately on the…

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  The Straight Story 1999

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Jan 2025

  R.I.P David Lynch. Safe travels on that lawnmower to heaven, I hear there's Beautiful Blue Skies & Golden Sunshine All Along The Way

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