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  Porky in Egypt 1938

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  It’s funny how many iconic John K. era Ren & Stimpy bits can be traced back to Bob Clampett. The camel’s nervous breakdown here is a direct predecessor to the yak going insane in Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen. Anyway that sequence rules, worth getting through the insane racism of this short’s first half to get there

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Some people will tell you that Mark Ruffalo and Toni Colette are not good in this movie. I want you to hear this from me- those people are liars. 

  This is so much wackier than I was expecting, but I was delighted by it. Pattinson obviously phenomenal in the central dual role, and Ruffalo and Colette are going absolutely ham here in a way that totally worked for me (the key to a good Trump is not doing the Trump Voice™️),…

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  Spider-Man: Far From Home 2019

  ★ Rewatched 06 Jun 2020 1

  ...god, this thing is the fucking pits.

  
  Spider-Man is my favorite superhero. Mysterio is in my top 3 favorite Spider-Man villains, and I've been waiting to see him on screen since Spider-Man 3. Endgame left me ready for a strong epilogue to the MCU. This should have been a slam dunk for me. Instead, we have not only my least favorite Spider-Man movie, not only my second least favorite MCU movie (only Incredible Hulk tops it in sheer dullness, to…

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  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  ½ Watched 02 Feb 2020

  I'm generally a fan of Taika Waititi's work, which is why it pains me to say that this is basically an unsalvageable disaster. There's so much that doesn't work here and so little that does. But really all you need to know is that this is a film about Nazi Germany where the entire thing is told from a Nazi perspective, the only Jewish character in the entire thing is stuck being the little Nazi boy's manic pixie dream girl,…

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