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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  The power of Godzilla as a franchise and character is the ability to meld together compelling stories of real-life traumas, fears, and beliefs under the guise of fantastical escapism. It’s in this realm that Godzilla Minus One excels perhaps greater than anything in the franchise since 1954. This is a film unafraid to make the same damning attacks on the then-contemporary Japanese cultural systems that its Ishiro Honda-directed predecessor did, only this time the focus is less on a condemnation…

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  GoodFellas 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  Either a victim of the “Seinfeld isn’t funny” effect but for gangster films or I’m just not big on it. It was definitely well made and I had a good time with it, but I feel like, at the end of it, it won’t ultimately stay with me in the long run. Great performances and I definitely don’t mind a movie with unlikeable protagonists, especially when most of them get what’s coming to them by the end. I think the…

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2023

  Amazing. Heartfelt. Emotional. Terrifying.

  One of the absolute greatest Godzilla films and one of the top 10 best kaiju films of all time. There's so many little details and big outstanding moments to talk about. It's messages were extremely powerful and their impact was tripled with the period setting. Godzilla is at his most villainous here, even though he really doesn't act all that differently from previous incarnations, but it's just the way the film portrays him against the protagonists…

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  Transformers One 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Sep 2024

  If 2018's Bumblebee and last year's Rise of the Beasts were the live-action arm of the Transformers film franchise righting itself after four of the most miserable action blockbusters of the new millennium, Transformers One is the first film from Paramount's time with the franchise that has unequivocally understood the franchise at its very core.

  To fans, the tragedy of Orion Pax and D-16 is a tale told many, many times over the past decade or so of Transformers media,…