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  • Morvern Callar

    ★★★½

  • River's Edge

    ★★★★½

  • The Crying Game

    ★★★½

  • Maniac

    ★★

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  • ...No Lies

    ...No Lies 1973

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2023

    After pioneers like Jean Roach and Robert Drew had established a discourse regarding the ethics of documentary filmmaking, film student Mitchell Block created an extraordinary indictment of the search for truth as it is rendered through cinema. Through Alec Hirschfield's cruel skeptic role, Block reproduces elements of a culture that is permissive not only of rape itself but the psychological abuse of those who've experienced sexual assault and dare to speak on the subject matter in a forum that doesn't…

  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953

    ★★★★ Watched 29 Jul 2022

    Wild how much more brazen conventional romantic cinema was about heterosexual romance's commonalities with sex work in this era. The movie functions as a metatext solidifying Marilyn's archetype and defining her persona as a slinky seductress who, despite her apparent ditzy airs (so as not to make her too threatening to the walking piggy banks she bleeds dry), is always one step ahead of the game. A bit of a genre mishmash, but that's fine.

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  • The Crying Game

    The Crying Game 1992

    ★★★½ Watched 13 Nov 2024 2

    Broke: The Crying Game is transphobic (that would be marketing, the general public, and the characters depicted in the film)

    Woke: The Crying Game demonizes the IRA

  • Terrifier

    Terrifier 2016

    ★★½ Watched 19 Oct 2024

    Just as tacky, thoughtless, and misogynistic as I expected it to be -- and yet? I'm oh so tickled by Art the Clown's insistence that he's already an icon.

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  • Possession

    Possession 1981

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Apr 2021 6

    need to smoke a blunt with this bitch

  • Serial Mom

    Serial Mom 1994

    ★★★★ Watched 27 Jun 2021 4

    The woman in this film who has an orgasmic experience watching Annie while her dog licks her feet is the most horrifying pervert depicted in any John Waters film.

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