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Legion - Season 2

9.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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The second season of the American cable television series Legion is based on the Marvel Comics...

Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Todd McGowan

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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many...

The Handbook of Microbial Metabolism of Amino Acids

J. P. Felix D'Mello

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This book collates and reviews recent advances in the microbial metabolism of amino acids,...

Cactus

Dan Torre

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Cacti are full of contradictions. Although they can be found in some of the harshest, driest and...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The Rules of Attraction (2002) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020

Bracingly twisted, disturbing 110 minutes of sex-crazed, sleazebag college sociopaths and the unenviably depressing lives they lead. A more quintessential Bret Easton Ellis film than even 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰 in showcasing his deliriously warped sense of the world. A university 'romance' drama soaked in booze, coke, apathy, sex, and a seething disdain for living well - naturally I loved it in all its parasitic debauchery. One of the most quietly experimental films of the early 2000s and also one of the fewer ones from that era that actually has a righteous soundtrack and tolerable sense of style. James Van Der Beek is a beast - existing on some other religious, primordial plane of existence that we can't comprehend in our current timeline just yet - and every other performance isn't too far behind. We should probably check up on the people who view this as some sort of misunderstood Truth Serum though, I just love it because it's fucked up tbh and I unashamedly dig me some rich slime. Loathes its characters but never superficially, like it *really* does - revels in the glee of inflicting cruelty on these horrid people but backs it up with tangible emotion to create this hypnotic clash of feelings. Couldn't take my eyes off it. I shudder to even use this now meaningless saying but... I'd be hard pressed to say you could have gotten away with making this today.