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The Twilight Zone - (1957 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/
https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-twilight-zone-classic/

A collection of separate short stories of various styles.



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the notes need to be cleaned up

Amélie - (2001 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
https://www.miramax.com/movie/amelie/

A quirky young woman crushes on a weird artsy guy.

This is quirkier than it’s characters, and is worthy of earning seventeen times its budget.

  • Original title: Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain



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Enter the Gungeon - (2016 game) logo

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
(on GOG.comon Humbleon Steam.com)
https://enterthegungeon.com/

A top-down bullet hell game with character and item variation. This would have been great in the early 90s arcades.

It’s good/meh. Not really for me.



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Aporia - (2023 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8511466/

Researchers of a small particle accelerator discover that a particle can be sent back in time, and they theorize that it can be used like a gun to kill people in the past and change the present.

While it’s a good idea, it feels pretty low effort.



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Banshee - (2013 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017109/
http://www.cinemax.com/banshee/

A criminal takes the opportunity to impersonate a sheriff and continues to be a criminal.

It fundamentally makes no sense how the character can fragrantly break the law.



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John Wick꞉ Chapter 4 - (2023 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366206/
https://johnwick.movie/film/john-wick-4

John Wick returns to alternately ruin and end his friends lives in the hopes of leveraging an obscure rule to free himself from .. whatever their assassins society is called.

It’s adequate, but has nowhere near equality: I think one unimportant woman dies on-screen and then the body vanishes, another gets hurt, and this has to be the most brutally misandrist movie I’ve ever seen. Feminist approved!