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Daddy's Home 2015
(update 5/29/23: taking another month off to be with the baby, so this is back in effect until july 1)
***quick programming note***
i usually only log the movies i watch for work, but i'm not gonna be writing any full-length reviews for the next little while (you can thank my imminent baby daughter for that), so this page is just going to be a diaristic, sleep-deprived, paternity-brained free-for-all until July. and then it'll go back to normal.
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La Chimera 2023
Just when it seemed like Cannes couldn’t get any worse for “Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny,” it turns out that James Mangold’s $300 million sequel wasn’t even the festival’s best movie about a sad and grumpy archeologist who chases a band of tomb raiders across the waters of Italy in order to stop them from selfishly exploiting a priceless artifact from before the birth of Christ. What are the odds?
Strange as that coincidence might be, it’s no…
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Wonder Woman 1984 2020
Barbara Minerva: I used to be a nerd who nobody liked but now I am hot and bulletproof and can pull off Robert Smith-levels of eyeliner.
Maxwell Lord: but don’t you want *more*?
Barbara Minerva: i want… to be cat.
