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  Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface 2024

  Watched 30 Jun 2024

  mike jackson used to live down the road from me and work at my local garden centre, true honour to have bought succulents and plant pots from the legend himself!! solidarity forever <3

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  McQueen 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Jun 2024

  kind of a shame that a documentary about one of the fashion world's great iconoclasts takes no creative risks of its own - we just get a conventional, chronological narrative that indulges in the usual tortured genius tropes. if nothing else, I would've liked to learn more about the actual craft behind his fashion, and what catalysed these incredible designs, beyond the recurring "he had so much darkness in his soul that needed to get out!!" theme that the documentary…

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 May 2024

  three people treat each other terribly for two hours but damn it they look good doing it! very entertaining and slick, with some genuinely creative cinematography, although I'm not sure how much depth this film actually had. would've appreciated understanding a little more about who these people are beyond their obsession with tennis and with each other. at no point do we properly learn about their family, any other friends, any other love interests - it's just tashi, art and…

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2024

  kind of hard to rate - some parts I really enjoyed, others I strongly disliked. I tried not to take things too literally but there's no escaping the grimness of the central premise, and the film's feminist politics don't really rise above barbie-level insights. probably works better as a study on masculinity than an empowering feminist fable (also kind of like barbie!), or just as a surreal steampunk adventure with some undeniably creative visuals. I didn't find emma stone in…

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