Recent reviews

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  Hold Me Tight 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2023

  tragic film, weaving the complex story of complex grief. memorable, heart wrenching, and well done.

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  The Mad Fox 1962

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2023

  full of visual magic. the storyline introduced in the beginning is not representative of what is to come. this movie had rich layers that get peeled back one at a time in a story of devolving sanity and tragic love. this would be amazing to see performed on the stage! save for a disturbing torture scene and unnerving licking scene, it’s a mellow and intriguing old film

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  The Mask of Zorro 1998

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2023

  A truly ridiculous and maximalist “student becoming teacher” trope meets “wild western style action” in the era of colonialism, industrial classism, and patriarchy! classic action style movie with plenty of cheesy fight scenes and romance. 

  + choreographed fight scenes verging on comedic (a la the style of pirates of the caribbean 1 or a recent james bond movie) 

  - some of the characters (like Zorro?) have British accents?? sooo many white guys playing Mexicans 

  + the score 

  - the shitty “fight scene turned gaudy eroticism” scene in the barn

  + the ridiculous chase scene at the end 
  worth seeing once!

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  Lucky 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2023

  Prickly biopic of an old man. Some heavy shit man. Watching him grapple openly with the existential dilemmas of life, death, and old age — makes you think, man.

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