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  Howards End 1992

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Sparks Lowry 13 Aug 2022

  Quite possibly the best Merchant Ivory film? Splendid evocation of the past as fantasy to make the audience culpritsin romanticising an era as classist and racist as the current day. Just beautiful stuff.

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  13: The Musical 2022

  ★½ Watched by Sparks Lowry 13 Aug 2022

  Shot like a Dhar Mann video.
  Seems that my wish for Tamra Davis to direct films again was on the monkey's paw.

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  Hillary 2020

  ½ Watched by Sparks Lowry 09 Mar 2020 4

  I knew I was gonna hate this when a song by The Interrupters began the documentary, trumpeting Hillary Rodham Clinton as a punk icon.

  This hits all the classic DNC beats, such as:
  - Evil Bernie supporters
  - Socialism bad
  - Russian hacking scandal
  - Taking cheap shots at Trump and pretending they weren't buddies once
  - Bringing up scandals very vaguely and failing to fully explain them
  - Bruh moments (such as the infamous 'nobody likes [Bernie]' and '[I…

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  Honey, I Blew Up the Kid 1992

  Added by Sparks Lowry 1

  Still very upset a child did not explode in this.