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Fire Music 2021

Watched 17 Sep 2021

a YouTube explainer that i paid to see on the big screen—and that's not unfair at all considering every archival clip is obviously ripped from YouTube in poor quality. one of the blown-up and pixelated stock photos used in this movie had a visible mouse cursor right in the middle of the screen.
a feature-length documentary about some of the most stridently political Black art of the 1960s that never *once* mentions the Civil Rights Movement or Pan-Africanism. (to the…
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

Watched 08 Sep 2021

the reason why Awkwafina’s character was so instinctively good at archery is because she’s half-Korean. anyway, awful movie watch Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame instead.

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The Mule 2018

★★★★½ Watched 10 Dec 2018 5

Eastwood made a tender film about the failure of the American Dream that doubles as a road trip through America’s beautiful heartland and as an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. it’s also one of the funniest movies of the year. i can’t fucking believe it.
Welcome to Marwen 2018

★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2019 1

tired: Bradley Cooper casting Lady Gaga to play a pop star who people told was too ugly to make it
wired: Clint Eastwood casting his own daughter to play his estranged daughter
inspired: Robert Zemeckis casting his own wife to play a porn star that the incel hero cranks it to

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