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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Dec 2024

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

  "Will you always be with me?"

  The first few times I saw this film, I couldn't fully buy that Chani could fall in love with Paul that fast. But when you watch this film through her eyes the way Villeneuve intended, it's pretty neat how he makes the argument.

  Establishing Jamis further in this film as a great and respected fighter (and therefore making Paul's victory in their fight more impressive), his initially sincere commitment to the Fremen people's self-determination,…

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  The Bikeriders 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 29 Jun 2024

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

  “You can’t have him.”

  “Who?”

  “You know exactly who I’m talking about. Benny. You can’t have him. The club can’t have him. He’s mine.”

  One of my favorite things about this film is how Johnny and Kathy both try and get a Benny to commit to their ideal life for him. But “winning” in this competition between them means taking away core aspects of Benny. People are drawn to him because he notoriously doesn’t seem to care about anything except…

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  Blade Runner 1982

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2025

  "I'm not in the business. I am the business."

  I don't think that I... like this film. But there are flashes of things that kept drawing me back in and those flashes are enough to give it this rating for now. This needs a rewatch but honestly... I'd probably skip through some scenes to get to the stuff that I loved.

  The best parts of this film are the cinematography and set design. Nothing else comes close. The blue on…

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 14 Jan 2025

  The practice scene with the brace still makes me cry

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  The Blue Angels 2024

  ★★★ Watched 16 May 2024

  Cameras on the ground filming planes! Cameras in the air filming planes!! Cameras strapped to planes!!! Cameras in the fucking planes!!!! In IMAXXXXXXXXX

  On a serious note, I will say I’m a bit underwhelmed by the structure of this doc. I wish they’d trusted us to understand more than just one maneuver in their show. This doc is simply too long to not focus on other parts of their show that we barely get to see. The propaganda in this…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Dec 2024

  “Kiss me. Kiss my heart. My heart.”

  Was fully prepared to bump my rating from a 4.5 to a 4 with this rewatch… and then I got sucked in again. Really the most terrifying this about this film is the feeling of getting sucked in. 

  The way the camera gliiiides as if it’s possessed. Those absolutely filthy transitions. The disgustingly delicious sound design, especially on those dogs or the feeding scenes. The way Eggers lets us peer into the dark.…