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  • Cure

    Cure 1997

    ★★★★★ Watched 26 Sep 2022 7

    Do you ever wake in the middle of the night, hear a sound in your home and become convinced that there's someone downstairs? Your heart starts to beat faster, the hairs on your arm begin to stand, your breathing quickens.

    This film is that sound in the night.
    This film is that feeling in your bones.
    This film is that person in your home.

  • Heat

    Heat 1995

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2023 9

    Man discovered fire < Mann created Heat

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  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II 2024

    ★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2024 8

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Decent fun but I can’t help but feel that it could have been so much more. The big set pieces are mostly excellent and Denzel has a lot of fun with his role, however it never really justifies its existence.
    The biggest issue is that the film repeatedly tells us what the stakes are and how we should feel, without showing us anything to truly back it up.
    The emperors are bad - why? Based on what we’re shown, the…

  • Rebel Ridge

    Rebel Ridge 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 06 Sep 2024 8

    Water in the desert! A near perfect thriller!
    It’s such a pity that this has gone straight to Netflix and isn’t playing in theatres for the next few months. It’s basically a Jack Reacher story but if it was written and directed by one of the best edge of your seat thriller director working today. In a just world he would be fast tracked to the top of the studio system and given a blank check to make whatever the hell he wants after this and Green Room. Instead, he has his second masterpiece dumped on Netflix.

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  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Oct 2022 8

    This film radiates evil. It seeps out of the screen and infects the air around you.

    I had forgotten how well it builds tension. From the opening text crawl onwards something just seems......off
    Surprisingly it doesn't rely on gore to generate its scares, it earns it in other ways; through its decrepit locations and the constant sense of dread. It almost feels like a snuff film - the scene where Sally flees leatherface at night might be the most genuinely…

  • Scavengers Reign

    Scavengers Reign 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2023 3

    Watching this after Rebel Moon gave me serious whiplash. It was like going from watching six year olds playing football to watching Real Madrid play a champions league final. Calling them both sci-fi would be like calling roadkill and wagyu beef both edible meat.
    I was massively impressed by this show. I loved how it just drops you into a fully formed world with no hand holding. There’s no unnecessary exposition to explain every little thing that’s happening, the characters…

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