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\"LeonAndMatilda\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Where to start… you thought you liked Kick Ass?\u00a0 Ha, child’s play compared to this… You thought you liked Lucy?\u00a0 Bah, faggedaboutit… don’t miss this earlier groundbreaker that deals with death and pain and Gary Oldman and mobsters and their quiet moments and Natalie’s first killer performance and… Matilda’s passion for life, like that of many tweens, is inspiring. I was listening to Bjork’s Debut earlier, another amazing example of unbridled passion and obsession, and when Luc included nearly the entirety of “Venus as a Boy” in the movie, I had a moment. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where to start… you thought you liked Kick Ass?\u00a0 Ha, child’s play compared to this… You thought you liked Lucy?\u00a0 Bah, faggedaboutit… don’t miss this earlier groundbreaker that deals with death and pain and Gary Oldman and mobsters and their quiet moments and Natalie’s first killer performance and… Matilda’s passion for life, like that of … Continue reading 9.0 Leon: The Professional<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-cool-movies","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-vq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":104,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/bad-grrrls\/","url_meta":{"origin":1948,"position":0},"title":"Too funny for their own good","author":"m","date":"February 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I guess they're teaching sarcasm classes earlier these days... kids these days... when *I* was a youngster, we quietly stood in the corner, and ate paint chips! 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