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  Maestro 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2025

  this is the perfect visual document of new york nightlife, specifically at sanctuary, paradise garage, and the loft and the people who shaped underground dance music culture in new york city (the partygoers looking for refuge and solace from daily life and the party organizers who meticulously paid attention to creating an atmosphere for authentic expression).

  including '90s house tracks directly influenced by music larry levan and david mancuso played at parties as background music for the interview segments gave…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★½ Watched 20 Sep 2024 1

  waiting for a contemporary horror film that doesn't feel like a superficial and an overly extended gimmick devoid of personality to be released in this day and age. effective and extreme violence but outside of the gimmick, what else is there? if anyone has recommendations, i am begging, please let me know. demi killed it. the gore was effective, and the beginning and end held up. could have done w/ someone else other than margaret qualley for the more idealized…

Popular reviews

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  Music 2021

  ½ Watched 09 Feb 2021

  TW: ABUSE, BULLYING, TRAUMA

  
  disclaimer: i never watched this movie and never will :)

  this movie is ableist and exploitative, and it is filled with nothing but hatred, ignorance, nepotism, and violence toward the autistic community via its neurotypical casting decisions and collaboration with hate organization autism speaks. promoting eugenics through assigning videos recorded by abusive parents of their autistic children undergoing meltdowns for the cast to study AND violent restraining tactics that are known to have caused positional asphyxiation…

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  Madam Satan 1930

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Jul 2024

  devious and demonic!
  i need to know every single detail about the process behind filming this & the production. costume design had me in awe. so many memorable one liners and endearing sarcastic moments. exactly my kind of recipe for what makes a movie so damn good: screwball (sometimes leaning into slapstick tho) comedy, romantic scheming, lots of tension, music, drama, absurd and exaggerated facial expressions/reactions, and spectacle!

  madam satan will surely take you to heaven aboard the zeppelin!