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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Bong Joon Ho makes a 1 part sci-fi, 1 part satire, 1 part slapstick comedy salve for 2025. This movie has been in the bag at WB and continuously delayed for what feels like years now, as if waiting for a Trump administration to play into. The Mark Ruffalo/Toni Colette attention hungry awful leaders makes sense, but similar to “Don’t Look Up,” they are way too real to be funny.

  Thankfully there’s plenty more sci-fi multiple body nonsense and three-some jokes to chew on that keeps the brain ticking in other directions. B

  Great night @spectrumtheatre with @penkpanther

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  Light Sleeper 1992

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  Incredible character study. New York looks great, despite the trash.

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Oct 2023

  Sequel #7 Report Card:
  Action Sequences: A-
  Train Sequence: A++ (They ate the Uncharted filmakers lunch for sure.)
  Motorcycle Cliff Jump Sequence: Go watch better ones on Youtube.

  Plot: B+
  Villain Name "The Entity": C-
  Fear of actually needing "analog" or "Air Gap" standalone computing and file systems in the Age of A.I. : A+

  Acting/Cast: C+
  Tom Cruise trying to act 35ish at age 61: C-
  Casting Hayley Atwell and Rebecca Ferguson: A
  Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg: B+ Just cashing checks at this point.

  Momentum going into the part 2 franchise "Finale": B+

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  Juror #2 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 11 Dec 2024

  Straight forward stories that allow you to sit and stew in a much more complicated theme feel like a lost art in 2024. It is great Director Clint Eastwood can still deliver in spades. He lays out the courtroom, the bar, the rainy windy Georgia country road and what is at stake in this courtroom drama just 15 minutes into a 110 minute runtime. From there it unwinds predictably with good performances from Nicholas Hoult as our titular conflicted father…

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