I figured it was finally time to watch LEPRECHAUN (but I wish I had poured a tall glass of whiskey first). It's weird how it toes the line between bloody slasher & campy comedy while doing neither very well. I can't believe $8.5M was enough to warrant 6 more sequels! Fuck you Lucky Charms... 1.5*
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#79 on Stuff I Watched in 2025
BLACK BAG isn't as exciting as one would expect a spy thriller to be, but Soderbergh's direction & Koepp's writing kept the film humming. The actors all do great, especially Fassbender & Blanchett—what I wouldn't give for all of them in a TV series a la Slow Horses. The reveal was hard to follow 4*
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#78 on Stuff I Watched in 2025
#1 of 4 (so far) on Agra's 2025 Ranked
#21 of 22 (so far) on Top New Watches of 2025
#8 of 19 (so far) on Steven Soderbergh Ranked
Removed from My Overcast Spoilers Playlist (Next Best Picture)
LE SAMOURAI is better than Le Cercle Rouge! Delon does amazing work, often with minimal dialogue (Melville seems to like directing silence). The opening has barely any exposition but terrific payoffs & the final cat & mouse chase has been copied often but never improved upon
June Squibb deserves another Oscar nom for THELMA for her line delivery of "Zuckemborg" alone. Hilarious tale of octogenarian revenge with some lovely grandson-grandma interactions. Margolin uses the action movie tropes & shooting styles well & even gives the bad guy a speech with all the themes! 4*
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#22 on Stuff I Watched in 2025
#47 of 145 (so far) on Agra's 2024 Ranked
#6 of 6 (so far) on Top New Watches of 2025
Completed for Prompt #14. Watch a movie from the 2020s
#2 of 35 (so far) of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge 2025
