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  Emily 2022

  ★ Added

  On the one hand, it makes absolute sense how writers of centuries past are able to capture contemporary imaginations in ways that reflect either their writings or aesthetic movements of the current era, instead of themselves as proper personalities. It's easier to daydream about the could-have-beens of Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf or Emily Brontë, than to spend time researching their lives and looking for a portrait that reflect them rather than our fictions. One part of me thinks we should…

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  A Quiet Place: Day One 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  As a monster movie, A Quiet Place (2018) does it better, but Day One has strong performances from both leads – a highlight to Lupita Nyong'o – and it played with the idea of the despair of surviving an apocalypse with a pet very well.

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  Lady Chatterley's Lover 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Oct 2024

  Well that was more faithful to the novel than I was expecting. Not a fan of the score though, and unsure how I feel about Corrin's Connie just now.

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  Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024

  ★★ Added

  I watched it for Dan Stevens and Dan Stevens it provided.

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