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  • Foolish Wives

    ★★

  • Häxan

    ★★★★★

  • White Men Can't Jump

    ★★★★½

  • Blue Chips

    ★★★★

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  • Foolish Wives

    Foolish Wives

    ★★

    We can sit here all day wishing we got the 6 hour version of this, but the 2.5 hour version I just watched was overlong, extremely pretentious, filled with underdeveloped characters and screamed overcompensating.

    A story that is unoriginal and pretty uninteresting (wow there’s a seedy underbelly to beautiful places, pretty sure that idea wasn’t new in 1923), this exercise in “look at me I’m awesome-but actually not lol” was a slog. I mean he literally wrote a book that…

  • Häxan

    Häxan

    ★★★★★

    Well coat me in oil and let’s kiss the devil’s behind, because this movie rips. Stunning production and costume design, gorgeous use of lighting and shadows and just so much fun. And honestly, as horrified as audiences may have been back then, you don’t have prolonged sequences of demon births and those milk churning shots without knowing you’re making a riot of a film.

    Truly the first silent era film I think I’ll rewatch and maybe even recommend. This film…

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  • White Men Can't Jump

    White Men Can't Jump

    ★★★★½

    Billy beats Sidney in 6 every time, but Sidney gets the top plays on Sportscenter.

    Always heard this was one of the great sports movies, and glad I finally made time for it. Shit talking, letting your game speak for you, protecting your girl from everything except your gambling addiction, this was iconic.

    I love how the movie circles around the fact that pretty much everything in the characters’ lives is tragic, but the movie isn’t about that. Gloria sees…

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

    A charming little movie I’m glad exists. Fun animation and story. Plus, Porky Pig is a simp and Daffy Duck likes being probed is now canon?!

    This movie had heart and didn’t at all feel like an IP cash-in, which is something no Disney movie can say since… when?

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