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  The Electric State 2025

  ★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  “Mr. Peanut signed the treaty of surrender with President Clinton”
  
  My dear friends, the Russo Brothers, have returned to “bless” us with their latest money laundering effort, “The Electric State”.  The film is based on an illustrated novel by artist Simon Stalenhag and it follows a teenage girl and her robot on a journey through alternate 1990s America in search of her long lost brother. While I have not read the novel, I can tell it’s rather bleak in its tone…

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  Companion 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2025

  “Welcome home, Beep-Boop.”
  
  Seeing the trailer for Companion, I was already intrigued as it not only had actors I enjoy seeing from other films and tv shows, but also was coming from the team behind Barbarian. Which I consider to be one of the best horror films of the past few years. The aspect of the film I enjoy so much is that it takes the familiar beats of a romantic comedy and twists them into something far darker. Using…

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ★★★ Watched 25 Jul 2024

  You’re joining at a bit of a low point”
  
  Says Deadpool to Wolverine as they officially join the MCU. It’s a line that without a doubt is commentary on the current declining state in the highest grossing franchise of all time, which has struggled to reach back to peak form after the earth shattering finale to a decade long storyline hit its apex with “Avengers: Endgame”. Of course they’ve had wins such as “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, but the MCU…

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 May 2022 1

  “It’s going to take more than killing me to kill me”

  “Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness” is the sequel to 2016s “Doctor Strange”, it is also the 28th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it the follow up to Spider-Man: No Way Home and Wandavision. As you can tell, this movie has a lot to cover on its hands, but while we get less of an Avengers level event film that’s not the crowd pleaser Endgame and…