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The Descent

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Drama,Horror,Survival Horror

I’ve seen this one a few times, actually, so I rewatched it because I don’t think I ever saw the Descent 2 and wanted to revisit it. I remember young me, 12 years old, thinking, oh god. Juno is hot. It’s a good movie, led by an all-female cast. I love cave creature movies and…
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Homestead

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Action,Drama,Pew Pew

I did not care for this movie. It was overacted, overdone, corny. Lot of masculine games going on until Ian gets shot and Jenna lets them all in and there’s, like. Faith stuff. Basically criticizing the need to hoard materials and prepper culture in the face of WWJD and stuff. That’s the good part, actually,…
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The Substance

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Horror,SciFi

In the pursuit of youth and beauty, you rob yourself. That’s the most basic message in the Substance. The very least you can get from it. But we can expand on that, can’t we? The disposal of aging women in our society, the need to meet male standards for women’s beauty, the men in position…
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The Purge: Election Year

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Action,Horror,Pew Pew

I find it funny that this movie came out in 2016, when Trump won the office for his first term. Like the other Purge film I talked about, the symbolism is in-your-face, criticizing the current government and begging people to trust the system and using their vote to change things rather than taking direct action.…
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The Purge: Anarchy

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Action,Horror,Pew Pew

As I watched it, I was laughing to myself. No wonder it is so popular a series. For people like me, it’s a criticism of the government putting systems in place that fuck over the lower class in order to build a world where those on top stay on top, enjoying the fruits of the…
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Nobody

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Action,Black Comedy,Comedy,Pew Pew

My parents went nuts trying to get me to watch this ASAP. My dad says that it’s one that he can’t stop watching if it happens to come up on TV. I’ll call it a suburban John Wick, playing itself straight and yet knowing precisely what it is. I’ll just toss out this scene here.…
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Fatman

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Action,Comedy,Pew Pew

Have a Holly Jolly fuck you!
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Heretic

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Horror

One of the few times in life you’re going to sympathize with the Mormons in a movie.
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Fresh

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Horror

Bro. Bro. I fucking loved this movie. It was nasty. It was great. It spoke to me on a fundamental level. Let me start with something I wrote right after it: excellent film, fresh 2022, however all the thirst on kemp when mollie is there is insane. also the man is a cheater. filthy cheating…
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V/H/S/Beyond

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Action,Anthology,Horror,Parody,Pew Pew,SciFi

Time for aliens! Especially the cosmic horror of faster than light travel!
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Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.

What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.

Truck-Kun Kill Count:

6

Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/100

19%

Comics Read in 2025: 25/100

25%

Physical Owned Books Read: 400/662

60%

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