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  Home Alone 1990

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Patrick Fisackerly 26 Nov 2021

  Love that the McCallister family has a VHS compilation of Bruce Springsteen music videos. I had something similar when I was a kid, but it wasn’t Bruce, it was Shania.

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched by Patrick Fisackerly 26 Nov 2021

  The racist Asian stuff feels like a bad sketch character. Even if it was “period-specific,” it doesn’t belong in this movie. Baffling choice. 

  I also really didn’t like the final moments. I don’t want to seem like a lame ol’ prude, but if we are supposed to take what happens at face value (which I believe we are meant to), then how would we feel if the genders were reversed? Their dynamic for 99% of the movie is complicated, but it doesn’t cross a line. And then I think it does. 

  Otherwise, I fucking loved it.

Popular reviews

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  Space Jam 1996

  ★★★ Rewatched by Patrick Fisackerly 16 Feb 2020 1

  Look, all I’m saying is, YOU write a movie where the Looney Tunes kidnap Michael Jordan and force him to play basketball against aliens, you do a better job, go ahead.

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  Space Jam: A New Legacy 2021

  ★ Watched by Patrick Fisackerly 16 Jul 2021 2

  • I saw this movie at the AMC 16, and when the screen said “Burbank, CA,” the audience clapped.
  • We get both “That‘a gonna leave a mark!” and “Well, THAT happened” within about a minute of each other.
  • The extras dressed in famous WB Halloween costumes were given one direction and one direction only: to absolutely lose their fucking minds. They’re never reacting TO anything. They have no team allegiance. When the game is over, they haven’t stopped. It’s…