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  Gone Girl 2014

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Jan 2025

  Grainne told me over Christmas that she had watched this and it was good. So, alone in a hotel room for a week, missing Ryan and the boys terribly and bored to tears, I texted Grainne and Maggie: “Maggie! Grainne! Quick! A good movie to watch while alone in a hotel room missing my family!? I was thinking "Gone Girl" but maybe too scary..?!!” 

  Silence. 

  So I turned on Gone Girl. An hour into it, Grainne texted back: “Can't think…

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  Red One 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2024

  This did it for me today. Nice little Christmas Family Movie - an instant classic. We (Rachel, too) were in stitches. Such a brilliant set-up: everything all in one, and with the utmost seriousness. Humor and action and heartfelt-ness and modern and myth, and none of it going too far.

  Great cast ✅
  Grey filming ✅ (the shot with just the hand grabbing the carrot 😂)
  Great script ✅ (“Do I look human to you..?” - Dwayne The Rock Johnson 🤣)

  Anyway, up they with “Knives Out” and “The Gentlemen” for straight-up enjoyment. Except Christmas themed.

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