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  Scream 2 1997

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Frogtown 13 Jan 2022

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

  the glee when olyphant yells "BILLY'S MOTHER!"

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  Rope 1948

  ★★★★ Watched by Frogtown 12 Jan 2022

  pure serendipity doing a double feature tonight with scream which also features two gay lovers trying to get away with murder.

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  Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971

  ★★★★ Watched by Frogtown 02 Feb 2021 1

  Melvin Van Peebles interview with Roger Ebert:

  "And the arrogance of the white critic is something to behold. In New York, a lot of the critics wouldn't even come to see my movie because I didn't have a screening for them. I said, if they want to see it, let them go to a theater that's full of black people, and full of kids, and let them listen to what's coming down, and they'll understand the film."

  "But if they…

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  Diabolique 1955

  ★★★★½ Watched by Frogtown 29 Jan 2021 1

  please murder me Véra Clouzot. those final scenes! why do horror films at boarding schools always gotta go this hard. apparently Clouzot was disparaged by the new wave dudes for "being part of the old guard". get out with that bullshit.