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LGM Film Club, Part 269: The Parallax View

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 7, 2022

Alan Pakula's The Parallax View was one of those iconic 70s films that I had never seen. But I watched it the other day. I know that for some this film is iconic, but I thought it pretty half-baked. First, anyone watching 70s cinema realized...

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Supergreen It’s like when Gavin Newsom thought that he could be interesting in a podcast that talks to bros. But like, he’s the governor of California, he could talk inside baseball in California politics....
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cereal No, he lives in Florida, it’s not that.
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