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  Bottoms 2023

  ★★½ Watched 02 Sep 2023

  I wish I could stop saying this over and over, but it isn't my fault comedy has taken a nosedive the past several years. I am so fucking tired of jokes that are blunt with easy set-ups because the writers just don't take the time.

  It's a genre of comedy where things happen that don't really happen in real life are good enough to lead in to a mediocre punchline (for lack of better word). It's been going on in…

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  You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah 2023

  ★★ Watched 01 Sep 2023

  Another mediocre Sammi Cohen high school flick made watchable by decent lead performances.

Popular reviews

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  Sodomites 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2019 2

  I wish I could find more information about Gaspar Noé's Sodomites. According to Wikipedia:

  The film is a hardcore safe-sex promo that was made for French television in the late 1990s.

  Television??? WTF channel was this on?

  Because it's an explicit, 9 minute, S&M film of a guy in a wolf mask anally penetrating (avec préservatif) a woman (adult star, and co-director of Baise-moi, Coralie Trinh Thi) while a rowdy group cheers them on.

  What is interesting is that the…

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  The Game Changers 2018

  ½ Watched 22 Oct 2019 22

  I'm not an expert by any means, but I have spent a lot of time reading books, blogs, articles, listening to podcasts and watching documentaries on the subject of nutritional health.

  In my late teens, I was macrobiotic briefly, and then vegetarian for nearly 10 years. In my late 30s, I was Paleo for around 4 years. I don't consider myself paleo now, but I do focus on a "whole foods" diet that is extremely minimal in grains, entirely free…