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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Jan 2025

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  Star Trek: Section 31 2025

  ½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  Star Trek has had a section 31 problem for a while. It worked once, in deep space 9, for a short run of episodes. That series was sceptical of large-scale institutions and their capacity for corruption and harm when put under pressure. "It's easy to be a saint in paradise', as Sisko put it.

  It began there by portraying Section 31 as an aberration, an unknown and illicit tumour attached to starfleet, unsanctioned and unwanted. A rogue organisation without morality…

Popular reviews

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  Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World 1998

  ½ Added

  Ugly. Boring. Cheap. Barely any plot and padded with animal antics despite being only an hour and 8 minutes. Somehow still racist, but in entirely new ways!

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  Cats 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2019

  These cats all want to die and that is canon. This film's enduring achievement is making the audience and cat motivation one and the same.

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