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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I just came back from the local Maui Mall Regal Cineplex having just watched the new Steven Soderbergh spy thriller Black Bag and it’s already one of my favorite films to come out this year. Rarely do we get such a lean and efficiently brisk mystery drama devoid of extraneous overdone plotting or histrionic action, focusing on the machinations and insights of the characters in an immediate tale of the withholding and infiltration of precious security intel precariously entangled in…

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  I just returned from the Regency Theatre in Kihei where The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie was being shown, and as a lifelong fan of the cartoons and the extensive animation pedigree around them it lived up to the hype and was a worthy cinematic entry. As a feature length film, it finally pulled through and succeeded where many previous efforts stumbled and failed in the transition to the longer form medium for the series.

  While…

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  The Iron Claw 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2023

  Came back from watching Sean Durkin's The Iron Claw and as a closet wrestling fan this was a truly endearing celebration of the Von Erich family dynasty that conquered the early 80's North American wrestling scene in a meteoric rise and tragically short fall of domination.

  Durkin's film is first and foremost a moving celebration of brotherhood, not allowing the darkness and fatalism behind the lives of the various brothers to eclipse the passionate dedication and heartfelt bonding that clearly…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Oct 2023

  I just came back from the theater this evening having watched it a second time. I knew after seeing Killers Of The Flower Moon for the first time that I immediately wanted to come back to this film and immerse myself in it deeper than before with all the subtext and layers presented in its story and characters.

  This film exhibits late Scorsese at his peak tier helm with his most assured direction to date, going for a decompressed slow…