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  One of Them Days 2025

  Watched 25 Mar 2025

  i don't always understand which movies play at my local somewhat small very mainstream very white dutch movie theater, but i'm REALLY glad this was unexpectedly (to me) one of them. i live for movies that play out over one incredibly hectic day, both keke palmer and sza are so so beautiful and so so SO charming in this, their chemistry is gorgeous, and the whole movie was fun but the ending was spot on perfect and made me shed a tear.

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  Tears of the Black Tiger 2000

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  genuinely truly honestly hand to god i was VIBRATING when i started to realize what was being promised to me here (a thai homage/parody of melodramatic 50s/60s romances crossed with an action movie that smashes elements of revisionist american westerns into this setting, presented in HIGHLY stylized BRIGHT colors). i ended up watching the only version of the original cut 110 minute movie i could find online in my area of the world, which was obviously spoken in thai but…

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  Monkey Man 2024

  Watched 10 Apr 2024

  hypnotizingly violent, mesmerizingly bloody, and not exactly funny, but so constantly just so relentlessly fun to watch - it's stylish, it's gorgeous, it's lush with enough meaning to sink your teeth into until you break skin. loved it, loved it, loved it. meeting transgender people might be the best thing that could ever happen to you. even in being so clearly (and openly) one of many following in the monumental legacy of john wick, this is never doing just that,…

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  Wicked 2024

  Watched 11 Dec 2024 2

  oh my god??? for context, i went into this with ZERO knowledge. just absolutely zip, zilch, nada. i have never even seen so much as the wizard of oz 1939 (you heard it here first, i'm a fake fan of movies) and i was honestly genuinely a little surprised when i was sitting in the theatre for this movie and they started singing, even though, in hindsight, i definitely did at some point know that they would, and i had…