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  Infinity Pool 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Jan 2023

  I liked the aesthetic. The story was... Unsatisfying.

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  Animal House 1978

  ★★½ Rewatched 21 Jan 2023

  This is the first time I considered perhaps this movie WAS intended to be a satire of the larger society. Just not a very good one.

  Also whatever the appeal Belushi had at the time, this movie does not reveal it.

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  Precious 2009

  ★★½ Added

  This is just an awful movie, made by somebody with contempt for cinema, apparently. Poverty porn for people who like hand-wringing in the comfort of their sitting room instead of actual change in the lives of others...

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  Sleep with Me 1994

  ★★★½ Added

  Famous of course for Tarantino's cameo as the party guest with the radical reading of the sexual subtext contained within "Top Gun" - worth watching for that alone.

  I caught this during my 1990s Eric Stoltz phase (like that's a thing people go through) and this is one of the more memorable indie movies he was involved with at the time. It's really a short film premise stretched to fit a feature canvas, and has the consequent weaknesses, but on the whole this is a pretty decent, if self-absorbed, film