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  Back to the Future 1985

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 29 Mar 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  In this rewatch entry, I'd like to talk about the "Smegma" graffiti on the school in 1985.

  This viewing really made me realize how much of 1980's Hill Valley is just sleazy. High schoolers make out in between the Cupid's Adult Shop and the XXX theater showing something called "ORGY." At first, I was like...."Wait, is this going to change when Marty gets back?" But it doesn't. In fact, the ORGY sign is a comforting signifier that Marty has returned…

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2023

  Damien Chazelle either really loves Singin' in the Rain or he detests it, so he did what every long-winded Letterboxd poster dreams of doing: he spent a bunch of money and made a three-hour movie about it.

  This was extremely my shit up through the Margot Robbie puking on a rich white dude scene. I think it would have made nice bookends to begin with the elephant shitting and end on Margot Robbie puking. But after this scene, the movie…

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  Creed 2015

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Mar 2023 1

  Any time the movie feels like it's getting a little shaggy with the training plot, Stallone says something like "You know, back in the day we used to do that one-handed. I don't wanna say nothin', though" while critiquing Donnie's push-ups and it's like....

  Beautiful.

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I'm not sure why I don't trust McDonagh to only be talking about the metaphor he's clearly spelling out in the movie. I spent a while convincing myself there was something more to In Bruges than the purgatory angle. And there is, but McDonagh really doesn't want you to forget about the purgatory angle. The same thing was happening here with the Irish Civil War.

  However, yes, there is that scene where Colm lays out the fear of vanishing into…