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Beaches 1988

★★★★ Watched 10 Dec 2024

Beaches. Dismiss it at your film education's peril. It's smart, it's funny and it ain't no chick flick.

Beaches is an intelligent and touching lifelong story of two women who liked, loved and hated one another right up to the bitter sweet end.
There are so many gifts along the way that still puts this out front, and I'd argue it's Midler's, Hershey's and Heard's best film in all of their canons.
Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970

★★★½ Watched 09 Dec 2024

This was so beautiful to watch and executed with aplomb.
What a great ensemble piece that really had you rooting for the supporting roles.
Half a star removed for dodging the impactful ending.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015

★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2024

Boyega was shafted by this franchise.
The Force Awakens delivers a strikingly good first 50 minutes, but it's when the legacy crew turns up that the wind goes out of its sails as it mostly offers up a facsimile of the original film.
In its defense, though, it's one of the better reboots of an old franchise. It's just a shame that Rey and Finn's kinship dissolves over this trilogy, getting muddled as the focus moved towards pairing Ben and Rey together instead.
PS: We REALLY don't care about Kylo Ren being Solo's kid, and Snoke is an inside crew joke, right?
Alien: Romulus 2024

★★½ Watched 07 Dec 2024

Hmm. I went to this as a fellow Gen X encouraged me to, but I'm not so sure.
I get that it's probably the strongest in a while, but I'm tired of mediocre retreads of incredibly successful legacy series being praised when they're not really bringing anything new to the table apart from maybe some 21st-century style. And that's not good enough.
The first three Alien films are individuals in their own right with bold new takes, coherent screenplays and…

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