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  It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown 1974

  ★★★ Rewatched 27 Mar 2023

  Pretty thin stuff up until the climax, but some truly bizarre gags and, of course, those lovely spring colors make the Easter Beagle worth waiting for. The bits with Woodstock's birdhouse must be the strangest cultural commentary Schulz indulged in any of the specials, right?

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  The Cook 1918

  ★★½ Rewatched 27 Mar 2023

  I'm giving this a half-point it doesn't deserve for the ladder-climbing dog and the amazing roller coaster/diving setpiece

Popular reviews

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  Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor 2022

  Watched 08 Oct 2022

  After all the damage Chris Chibnall has wrought on this show - be it fridging a black woman in his first episode, denying Rosa Parks her historical agency*, stanning Space Amazon, equating Daleks with refugees, burying gays left and right, and revising the Doctor to be an all-powerful immortal space cop while simultaneously making her first full female incarnation the most passive iteration of the character yet - the knowledge that he's going out by giving us grown-up Ace in…

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  Lupin the Third: Green vs. Red 2008

  ★★★ Watched 23 Apr 2018

  Pink should have won