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  Trespass 2011

  ★ Rewatched by Santi 20 May 2022

  The movie store dude, over 10 years ago, stood up and pulled this crusty Nic Cage DVD and held it up while telling me it was the best movie he’d seen that year—and maybe in a very long time. I, full of awe and endlessly blind trust for this man, grabbed it , paid for it, and ran home to watch it. 

  I never came back. Movie store closed a month later.

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  The Northman 2022

  Watched by Santi 13 May 2022

  Silly, in the not fun, frustrating way.

Popular reviews

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  Luca 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched by Santi 19 Jun 2021

  Luca, ultimately, explores the apex of human desire: to own a Vespa and eat pasta al pesto every single day. What a masterpiece.

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  Mainstream 2020

  ★½ Watched by Santi 07 May 2021 1

  Gia Coppola’s Mainstream, an intensely out-of-touch satire, hopes to be a commentary on the rags-to-riches effect of internet virality but quickly proves it is an odd, shallow look told from the very same disconnected point of view it is trying to parody.

  Andrew Garfield is insanely accurate as Link, the deranged overnight internet sensation-turned-influencer, but the film tries to point out the flatness of internet fame and the unstoppable, shameless ambition of its ‘celebrities’ by… hiring them? On top of the…