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One from the Heart 1981

★★★★½ Watched 04 Apr, 2020

“Old boyfriends
Remember when you were burning for them
Why do you keep turning them into
Old boyfriends
They look you up when they're in town
To see if they can still burn you down
He fell in love, you see
With someone that I used to be...”
The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999

★★★★ Watched 04 Apr, 2020

"Why do I think there's never been a Ripley rainy day?"

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

★★½ Watched 17 Dec, 2019 21

So, this is a "good news/bad news" scenario of the highest order (or Final Order, if we're speaking in the parlance of this picture). The good news is really only for folks who strongly disliked THE LAST JEDI. J.J. Abrams' return to the STAR WARS universe practically reduces that rather superlative instance of an auteur navigating the studio factory system and somehow still managing to make the movie he wanted to make nothing more than narrative sinew between two "traditional"…
Captain Marvel 2019

★½ Watched 04 Mar, 2019 83

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

While Marvel is no doubt viewing CAPTAIN MARVEL as a stride forward in the representation department - this movie is scientifically designed to appeal to those particular values - it's a massive step backward in terms of formal technique and fooling folks that these MCU pictures are anything more than feature length installments in a television series that will only end once humans have scorched the earth and there is no signal on which to transmit these products of the…