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  Drowning by Numbers 1988

  Watched 19 Jan 2025

  Drowning by Numbers is a movie where you need to sit with it for a while before you know quite what to make of it. It's so surprising, so very much itself that it clearly has some core principles, but it's quite unconcerned about holding the audience's hands until they get it. I needed to talk about this movie with my husband for about half an hour before I knew what I made of it, what I wanted to get…

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  The Endless 2017

  Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Permit me a digression. During the pandemic, I pretty much stopped watching new movies. There was too much stress to want anything challenging, and so comfort watches and tv became the way to get through. (There were a couple of years we survived on the Great British Bake-Off, Taskmaster, and Bob's Burgers.) I didn't make it back to a theatre until my husband and I ventured out to see Asteroid City in 2023. It was sparsely attended, and the two…

Popular reviews

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  WHAT DID JACK DO? 2017

  Watched 17 Jan 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  To set the context in which I encountered this short: for many years now, my husband and I get stoned on Friday nights and watch movies. I tend to be the verbose, thinky kind of stoned, and so my friends know that on Friday night, when I started posting in our movie-and-tv group chat, they might be on for a lot of rambling. So take that into consideration when I say that this movie is 17 minutes long, and I…

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  ¡Three Amigos! 1986

  Watched 17 Jan 2025

  So, first we watched David Lynch’s short film What Did Jack Do? and then my husband put this on and I was so obsessed with thinking about the monkey noir that I barely noticed this movie until right before the climactic fight.

  Jack vs the Three Amigos: not a fair fight for my attention.