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  The Green Knight 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Campbell George 29 Jul 2021 8

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

  Growing up, I read about a lot of different knights. Some of them saved Middle Earth, others Alagaësia. Some of them were even seated at Arthur's Round Table. Some were good and some were evil. But few were stuck in the middle. Fledging, maybe. Unsteady, definitely. But none fall as consistently, humanly short as Gawain.

  At every turn, he is weighed and found wanting. When Essel proclaims her love for him, his heart is insufficient to proclaim it back. When…

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  Swept Away 1974

  ★★★★ Watched by Campbell George 24 May 2022

  Karl Marx failed to consider: what if Robinson Crusoe was a communist who fell for a capitalist?

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  The Duke 2020

  ★★★ Watched by Campbell George 24 May 2022

  Last week, someone tweeted a picture of Harry Zidler from Moulin Rouge said that in her head, that’s Baz Luhrmann. Doesn’t have anything to do with this movie, but always nice to see Jim Broadbent on the TL and on the big screen

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  The Social Network 2010

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Campbell George 23 May 2022 1

  If this story was told today, it would be an eight hour miniseries on Showtime with all the airtight dialogue and pacing inflated beyond recognition.

  Good thing it wasn’t

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  Napoleon Dynamite 2004

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Campbell George 21 Mar 2022

  Kip was the first quirked up white boy to be goated with the sauce