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  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★★★★

  • M3GAN

    ★½

  • It's What's Inside

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  • Twisters

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  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2024 9

    Ok, fine, I'll tag along with your obvious attempts to play my geeky heartstrings and overstuff this film with a lot of my favourite characters making it basically a collection of cool cameos in a rather insubstantial and unremarkable plot and I guess that if you throw a lot of punches a couple will land and that holds true for jokes as well as proven in this barrage of one liners, puns and innuendo driven dialogue that, one has to conclude, is delivered with stunning comedic timing by all.


    Yeah, I had a good time. Sue me.

  • M3GAN

    M3GAN 2022

    ★½ Watched 15 Oct 2024 8

    The only thing this does quite effectively is not being too on the nose about the social commentary about tech and AI and in the first half manages to weave this quite deftly into the narrative.

    But this is, in the end, a horror film. And at that it fails miserably.

    This is so fucking tame it is infuriating. Here you have an above average budget, a fantastic villain with brilliantly creepy creature design and all the possibilities for gore and creative deaths, but no, we make it beige and boring and pedestrian.

    I've seen episodes of Sesame Street that were scarier.

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  • Chungking Express

    Chungking Express 1994

    ★★★★★ Watched 01 Nov 2013 51

    I love the stupidity of holding on to what has moved on.

    I love the smallness of the biggest emotion we know.

    I love the pain that doesn't seem to leave but you know somehow it will.

    I love seeing love.

    And I love how Wong Kar-Wai manages to capture all of the above and mold it into a piece of visual poetry, instilled with the melancholy, pain, joy, frivolity and promise our species' most powerful four letter word possesses.…

  • Before Sunrise

    Before Sunrise 1995

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Sep 2012 18

    The best love poem ever filmed.

    Sweet without being sugary.

    Heartfelt without being sappy.

    A big heart shaped slice of perfection.

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