{"id":136,"date":"2025-09-23T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgk.rpg.temporary.site\/website_0593dac7\/?p=136"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:28:23","slug":"day-22-maxxxine-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmad.jamietoon.com\/website_0593dac7\/day-22-maxxxine-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 22: MaXXXine (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-63dbf646b6318e4e69e7994e8dc47c09\">After watching X in 2022 (5 skull) and Pearl in 2023 (4.5 skulls), I was pretty excited to watch the third movie in this series. I held off from when it was released so I could include it here, and was not disappointed! It&#8217;s as good as the first two, though pretty different feeling as both of those.<br>X and Pearl were horror movies, through and through. 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