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  Sister Midnight 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025 2

  "Are you sad?"

  *Shakes head* "This is just how God painted my face."

  Fucking bonkers. I believe the official term for this is "cuckoo banana balls". Took about 15-20 minutes before I realized it was absurdist with a capital "A", after which I was pretty much completely on board.

  Radhika Apte masterclass. HUGE Mumbai movie, although speaking with some friends who lived more of their lives there than myself, I realized my excitement about an Indian diasporic filmmaker making an…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025 5

  I wonder if when Velma from Scooby-Doo would say "Jeepers Creepers" she was in any way referring to the creepers in this movie. In which case Bong Joon Ho may have inadvertently (or otherwise) provided the final entry in the Scooby movie trilogy, finishing what James Gunn started. Much like Kylo Ren said he'd finish what Darth Vader started in The Force Awakens. There is also a wilhelm scream in this movie. Intertextuality is my passion.

  This is pretty good!…

Popular reviews

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  Eraserhead 1977

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2025 2

  In the words of the illustrious Benoit Blanc: "It makes no damn sense! Compels me, though..."

  The first of hopefully many Lynch watches induced by the guilt of not having seen almost any of his work while he was alive.

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Jun 2023

  Okay everyone was right. From the very beginning where Gwen was essentially like "Okay, here's what's happened, and here's what's going to happen - y'all are not ready for what's going to happen" in this beautiful and epic start-your-engines type montage, all my doubts were pretty much washed away. A step above technically. How is that possible? Don't ask me. I realise that I can't just let myself enjoy things because for most of the film and afterwards I was…