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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  We perceive just a fraction of what exists around us. We can only see a fragment of the full spectrum of colors that exist in the universe, and then our eyes lie to us about the colors we *can* see. Our brains are the product of what are essentially evolutionary hacks, shortcuts meant to help us understand patterns that allow us to make sense of the world, plus the ability to protect ourselves by picking out the hidden faces in…

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  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Oct 2024

  The archetype of "a dangerous woman" almost always involves a parallel character of a man who is actually far more dangerous and yet somehow given a pass, which is why Teddy Lloyd in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE righteously attacks Jean for grooming certain girls to become teenage lovers of artists like him, but then happily turns around and bangs those underage girls without worrying even a moment about his own personal ethics. I first realized how frustrating and…

Popular reviews

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  Murder at the Vanities 1934

  ★½ Watched 22 Aug 2014 1

  We pre-Code film fans, as a group, really need to stop going ga-ga over any movie with moderately salacious content. The days of having only a couple dozen pre-Codes to fawn over are long gone, and we can afford to bypass films like MURDER AT THE VANITIES, with only tepid naughtiness to balance out the complete ineptitude.

  Sure, MATV is offensive; it's a pre-Code from 1934, it's practically required to be offensive. It's notable, however, for being one of the…

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  Watchtower Over Tomorrow 1945

  ★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2020

  Film #14 for my Hitch in Time Project.

  A 1945 propaganda piece designed to sell the American citizen on the idea of the United Nations. Possibly never shown, and possibly with very little (or even no) Alfred Hitchcock content. There are differing accounts regarding how much work Alfred Hitchcock did on this government film, especially since Hitch wasn't named as a director in the Variety announcement of April 1945, but one thing film scholars seem to agree on was that…