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road house (1989)

never knew much about this classic until I watched it; for some reason I was equating it with cayote ugly but really it's much more like a western with a few modern twists thrown in - and really it's a lot of fun with a lot of stupid lines sprinkled throughout that you'll love to repeat. 

jodorowsky's dune (2013)

from the mesmerizing electronic music to the deep interviews to the wonderful recreations of pieces of jodorosky's movie that never was, this 90 minute doc really shines, really does justice to the ambitious scale of the project. 

the year of our way by Steph Swainston

on the positive side the world building, adult themes (how often do fantasy epics treat with drug addiction?), and characters are great; on the negative side there were too many inscrutable names of people and things, and the writing could be better in places - but this is the author's first, so I'm looking forward to seeing her improve in the sequel.