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  Barbie: The Princess & The Popstar 2012

  ★★★ Watched by MandelBroSet 16 Feb 2021

  Glad the kids have this out of the way early. It's good for them to know that an autocracy will straight up lie to its citizens and conceal the existence of a diamond bush while the impoverished suffer the effects of a drought.

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  Night of the Living Dead 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by MandelBroSet 03 Mar 2021

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

  A defense of Night of the Living Dead:

  - It's a mostly 'one-location' film.

  - It's an 'events unfold over one night' film.

  - It plays out like a tabletop game. By that, I mean it's an exercise in decision-making for a small group of people, mostly strangers to each other, who hold no authority over one another and how they must reach decisions through compromise which are both for the benefit of the group but also for the individual.…

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  Groot Takes a Bath 2022

  ★★ Watched by MandelBroSet 16 Aug 2022

  What a menacing ending, holy crap.

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  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003

  ★★½ Watched by MandelBroSet 15 Aug 2022

  Does Leatherface wreck the house that much with every visitor? That household must spend a fortune on repairs.

  I didn't dislike it but I was pretty bored after the halfway mark. Also the rest of the family/community aren't very scary, I don't think they should get much focus.

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  Black Swan 2010

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by MandelBroSet 02 May 2016

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

  Film #7 of the Scavenger Hunt #14 hosted by Max Oxley
  Item 3 - A film you saw 5+ years ago in theatres but haven't seen since

  This movie plays very well on my personal fears.

  All the body horror, where she accidentally cuts her hands or destroys her feet. There's something about those parts of the body that when they get sliced or twisted in a movie, I really feel it.

  That I could get too obsessed with something…

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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched by MandelBroSet 04 Sep 2020 1

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

  It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.

  I love that quote.

  So on this second watch I noticed the short Janitor scenes in the opening segment much more and many things from those scenes bleed into the rest of the film: his students acting out Oklahoma on stage before Jake plays the music in his car, dancers practising for Oklahoma are the dancers acting as Jake and 'Young Woman' later in…