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Recent reviews

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  The Paragon 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Perfectly endearing, funny, and melancholy (in a wonderful way). I hope Michael Duignan continues to write screenplays like this.

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  Eye of the Tiger 1986

  ★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  Extra half star for Yaphet Kotto's Red Baron outfit!!

Popular reviews

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  Meteor 1979

  ★★★ Watched 11 Dec 2024

  OK, OK, this was a big flop at the time for a reason. It is a formulaic disaster movie light on script, creativity, or exciting dialogue. And the purpose of Sean Connery’s character feels stuffed in for coolness alone, as the former NASA scientist and MIT professor, who, somehow, is the only one in the US capable of charming the USSR into uniting for a common cause. It’s silly.

  BUT, this 2.5 star movie becomes a 3 if you watch…

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  Mystic Pizza 1988

  ★★ Watched 10 Mar 2023

  Happy music played while dad screwed the underage babysitter and the reluctant bride lost her identity anyway. Yuck, you can keep the 80s.