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Strike a Pose

★★
I Remember You

★★★
Jar City

★★½
The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its…

★★★

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Holidays 2016

★★ Watched 26 Feb, 2017

Father's Day was a particular favorite.
Being There 1979

★★★ Watched 31 Dec, 2016

Too real. Too real.

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Exorcist II: The Heretic 1977

★ Watched 06 Sep, 2016 2

Well. What a terrible start to Hoop-Tober!

On paper, this film should have been so much better. Linda Blair reprises her role as Regan from the original Exorcist, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Richard Burton, "natural successor to Olivier," plays the priest; at the time of filming, he'd won a Tony, two BAFTAs, and been nominated for six Academy Awards. Louise Fletcher, fresh off her Best Actress win for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's…
The Exorcist III 1990

★★½ Watched 15 Sep, 2016

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

First off, I have to give kudos to the script for completely ignoring everything that happened in The Exorcist II.

Unfortunately, despite the presence of a miraculously still-living Father Karras and a throwaway reference to Regan MacNeil, this film also seems to lack any real connection to The Exorcist: Original Flavor. Pazuzu is technically there, I guess, but all he's been doing is playing midwife to the displaced soul of executed serial killer James Venamun.

The film works as a…