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2025

★★★ Watched 28 May 2025

Deeply strange how this is probably Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final onscreen credit.

2024

Watched 22 May 2025

Love a documentary about gentrification and urbanism where your main expert talking head is the drummer from Lightning Bolt.

Officially neutral on this because we did an episode on it for 99PI.

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2007

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched 01 Oct 2023

I’m gonna catch him. I know we’ve been trying for a while but I think a fresh set of eyes might help with this thing.

2024

★★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

Very, very funny, until it becomes relentlessly, overwhelmingly sad.

Can't help but see the parallels with "Happy Go Lucky." That one's about an eternal optimist, who is either enlightened or very naive (named Poppy); while this one's about a bottomless misanthrope with seemingly no empathy (named Pansy). Both ask how these people got this way, and how we should live our own lives in response to the cruelties of the world.

I think this is Mike Leigh's great subject - how should a person be?

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