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Mickey 17 2025
Bong Joon Ho: loves satire, hates capitalism.
Robert Pattinson has enormous range here and leads an extremely game cast, the commitment to the bit is A1. Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette evidently both saw Tilda Swinton in Snowpiercer, injected that performance with more than enough detritus from the orange prick in the Oval Office and swung for the fences.
I think Mickey 17 works best as pure entertainment. I feel like I'm picking up most of what Bong's putting down,…
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Chinatown 1974
I will absolutely need a second viewing down the line.
Largely a vehicle for some seminal scene chewing from Jack, I prefer him here than in Cuckoo’s Nest. Faye Dunaway is utterly exquisite. I didn’t quite jive with the plots, or the pace, until the final 10 minutes which kicked me upside the head and left me speechless.
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Miami Vice 2006
Oh, baby.
Yes, we get some diabolical accents and a truly guff script. But it’s taut, it’s brilliantly shot, it has copious amounts of lightning, it’s got People Being Great At What They Do™️, and it’s just So. Fucking. Cool.
Another veritable Michael Mann hit. Bonus points for that scorching hot Colin Farrell-Gong Li chemistry 🔥
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Rashomon 1950
I try not to live life with regrets, but I have a few.
I regret not taking learning a language more seriously in school. I regret not seeing the Police on their reunion tour. Today, I deeply regret waiting until I almost turned 31 before watching my first film by Akira Kurosawa. I don't have the capacity to adequately describe what I've just watched, but it must have been fucking mind-blowing to see this in 1950.
Toshiro Mifune is astonishing.…
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