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  The Descent 2005

  Rewatched by K. Austin Collins 07 May 2022

  I have a backlog of other things to log and will get to that eventually, or not, but wanted to say:

  For someone who’s spent most of the pandemic huffing Real Housewives* and (lately) Survivor, who’s also used much of that time to get acquainted with certain weirdo Australian authors and their fluctuating relationships to friendships between women (ie Helen Garner) or claiming and being claimed by ‘the land’ (Patrick White), this rewatch proved disconcertingly relevant. It wasn’t planned that way. 

  A few thoughts…

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  The Worst Person in the World 2021

  Rewatched by K. Austin Collins 08 Feb 2022 1

  This might sound like shade but it isn't: How has he not been poached to adapt Sally Rooney?

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  Booksmart 2019

  Watched by K. Austin Collins 28 May 2019 15

  Good acting. But. 

  If you’re a student at the kind of high school from which kids regularly graduate to attend Stanford and Harvard and Georgetown and Yale and even get recruited to bypass the whole college scam and start working at Google immediately, and if these other kids manage to find ways to be social and deviant while doing the work it takes to get into those schools, are you really going to think you have to sacrifice being social…

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  A Star Is Born 2018

  Watched by K. Austin Collins 07 Sep 2018 11

  I like this movie quite a bit, but why do people keep lying about it? 

  It’s clear that the problem with this movie is that Bradley Cooper—lead actor, director, co-writer, co-producer—has pushed himself so far into its center that he doesn’t seem to realize he’s not actually supposed to be its star. Buddy, you’re pretty much here to be a tragedy—not even a heroic fuckup, really, but a painful liability. And so many of the film’s other perceived flaws—anti-popness, especially—proceed…