Favorite films

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  Dune 1984

  ★★★ Rewatched 07 Sep 2024 7

  Diane, 11:30 a.m., February Twenty-fourth, 10191. Entering the planet of Arakis, third planet orbiting the star Canopus...I've never seen so much sand in my life.

Recent reviews

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  Before the Revolution 1964

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  "Things happen in life which we don't understand at first, but which are important and change us. A tracking shot is style, but style is a moral question. I remember a tracking shot by Nicholas Ray....I'm just a bore who rattles off lists of films, and tonight you need to be alone."

  Wonderfully soapy melodrama. I knew literally nothing going in and those watches are always so fun to see what surprises await.

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  King Solomon's Mines 1985

  ★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  "My father always wanted a boy! He'd know how to drive this thing!!"

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  A movie bold enough to ask: what if you took Raiders of the Lost Ark but had more cultural insensitivities and Marion Ravenwood sucked? Now, I'm sure you're thinking, "Leah, isn't that just Temple of Doom?" To which I'd respond "Correct! And! Also, this mess!"

  I literally have no sense what year this movie was set in. The 1930s? 1950s?? President day 1980s when it was…

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2024 2

  "I have seen things in this world that would make Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb."

  I mean whom amongst us hasn't had a sex dream about a vampire with a handlebar mustache before.

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  Happy-Go-Lucky 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jan 2025 9

  "I think we could pull in this."
  "Definitely."
  "Pub?"

  I adore that, yes, Poppy is bubbles and light wherever she goes, but there is a depth of emotion to her. She sees pain around her and takes time to absorb it. There isn't just glossing over things but pausing to breathe through it.

  Scott 100% got into QAnon during lockdown.