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  Thrashin' 1986

  ★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2023

  Josh Brolin might be the most beautiful boy I've ever seen. So lithe. So smooth. So swinging a pair of fake balls around like a mace.

  Watched on Amazon, two thirds club.

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  Theater Camp 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2023 2

  For what seems like a fleeting moment but was probably a good 5-10 years of my young life, I was a theatre kid. Or, at least, I was a threshold theatre kid. I was in numerous church and school productions, was a member of the local am-dram scene for a couple of seasons, studied drama into high school and for the hottest of hot seconds, enrolled in a theatre course at a local college. My biggest problem was my crippling…

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  In the Lost Lands 2025

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I think B&Q must have had a big sale on spikes and skulls. And what better use than to have PWSA push them, crash them, waft them and spinny-rotate them in front of my face for 100 mins?

  Just delightful. And stupid. And delightful.

  Watched at Vue, north Bristol, with Ian.

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  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984

  ★★★ Rewatched 08 Feb 2025 1

  It's a prequel?!

  There's a fair amount to enjoy here but that fact that you're never far away from some bizarre (aesthetic, thematic, politic) unpleasantness really takes the shine off. Ke Huy Quan is never less than a total joy, however, and it was worth watching just to see him act everyone else off a sketchy rope bridge.

  Watched at home, on DVD.

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Aug 2023

  Still pissed about Ilsa. The little breath Rebecca Ferguson lets out when she's sniping in the sandstorm at the beginning...so good.

  BUT so much here is so fun, so buttock-clenchingly exciting and often so breezy and comic *at the same time*, I cannot but recommend it. Even on second viewing, the train sequence offers perhaps the most sustained movie stress I've experienced since Uncut Gems.

  Watched at my local, with Dad. He really liked it too.

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  Puss in Boots 1988

  ★★ Watched 19 Aug 2023

  "Oh, Puss...imagine giving you the sausage." Quite early for the writing to peak.

  We got lots of comedy mileage out of a) Jason Connery's uncanny impression of an animate ream of printer paper, b) dick jokes, c) the royal wet-cake carriage and d) Chris Walken's undeniable nonsense. Puss in Boots merrily joins Christmas on the Square in the "not hard to imagine as an amdram stage show in a tiny East Anglian village" cinematic universe.

  Watched on Amazon, with movie club.