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Night Nurse 1931
Clark Gable: "I'm Nick...the chauffeur."
Me and Barbara Stanwyck: *screaming crying throwing up*
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May December 2023
Come for Julianne Moore's disturbingly manipulative abuser, stay for Natalie Portman's borderline-sociopathic bad actress, leave thinking about Charles Melton's broken boy in a man's body, finally realizing that he was a victim the whole time. Todd Haynes is the only modern filmmaker making old-fashioned movies (i.e. meticulously crafted melodramas) and I mean that in a good way.
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Lines of the Hand 2015
It's Guy Maddin and Udo Kier, I don't have to know what happened in it (I don't) in order to think it's totally rad.
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Convention City 1933
The power of Joan Blondell's tits to get this film entirely banned and destroyed...
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Saltburn 2023
As stupid as you'd expect from an attempt at a class satire written and directed by someone whose dad went to Eton. As with Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell seems convinced that she's doing something oh-so-shocking, but it's all much more silly than it is subversive - especially when you've already seen Teorema and The Talented Mr. Ripley (especially Teorema). It's also quite predictable; every attempt at a twist can be seen coming from miles away. Still, Barry Keoghan and…
