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★★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024
I suffer from psychogenic seizures and Lily Rose Depps performance was so horrifying and too close to home that I almost walked out multiple times. But I’m glad I stayed. Breathtakingly gorgeous, and a film deeply interested in the enthralling fascination, fear, disgust and compulsive obsession men have with trying and failing to control and understand young women’s sexuality, pleasure and power.
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★★★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Made in 1974, Black Christmas must have been on the cutting edge of the second wave women’s liberation movement at the time with the obvious feminist themes in the abortion plot. Yet, watching this film during the reproductive justice dystopia of 2024, I was still violently shook by the films clever subversion of Hallmark Christmas family ideals.
Black Christmas exposes the sheer rot of the worst despicable horrors possible lurking in the domestic familial confines. Beyond the obscene sexual harassment…
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So many good pet names, dog: Colorado and dude, cat: feathers and stumpy
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★★★★ Rewatched 17 Jul 2024
Redemption for Melissa! Justice for Jo! Bill sucks and both women are gorgeous and brilliant and deserve better. I'm sorry that Jo got sucked back into his manchild frat-bro, egotistical bullshit. He's just mad that Cary Elwes is hotter and better at grant-writing.
I'm usually prone to cinema-sins on the inner workings of academia, but half way through I tossed the nitpicking out the window and really enjoyed the fake movie science. This movie has a reputation for being a…
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