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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Worst Trump parody since the most recent one. 

  Seriously what’s going on here. These characters are so thin, the performances are all over the place and the promise of the concept is never delivered on.  I felt like narratively this thing never finds what it wants to be about. Snowpiercer one moment, then full Okja the next. Makes Megalopolis seem watchable in comparison.  These performances are so insincere, crude, and cringe. I’m a big fan of his unhinged performance in…

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  Blue Collar 1978

  ★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  It’s a tonal mixed bag. I liked the dialogue but the script itself is a bit all over the place. It gets a bit too high on its message and misses the meaning in presenting the ideas. The paint scene was a nice craft decision but otherwise there are a lot of camera choices that don’t make much sense.

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  Fire Island 2022

  ★★★ Watched 24 May 2022 1

  It’s a solid B-movie that hits all the rom-com beats. You know, Pride and Prejudice but gay. I enjoyed it thoroughly more than I thought I would. There are really no emotional stakes, the whole thing is a hangout film and thats not a bad thing, the cast is totally up for it. A lot of these actors have never been in a film before as far as I can tell and are all delivering top shelf chemistry and charisma, so for…

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  His Girl Friday 1940

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2017 4

  Viewed as part of FSDO 2017 Week 6 Screwball Comedies

  
  "Diabetes! I ought to know better than to hire anyone with a disease."

  Journalism, politics, and capital punishment, all subtext for what could be a melodrama but is in fact the screwball romantic comedy spitting out at 100 words a minute. There are moments when you wonder if you are watching a film in some other language. Phone conversations have never been recorded in such glory, bringing some of the…