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  Star Trek: Section 31 2025

  Watched 09 Feb 2025

  In order to qualify as reviewed, I have to write something about this.
  So anyway, there you go.

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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  If I was Karl Urban, I would have some questions. Not for the first time, his wife has been dabbling in storylines of powerful women, succumbing to a dominant male. Even if he is probably half her age. Still, rich a-list movie stars can pretty much cherry pick their roles. Here, a quietly submissive CEO with definite particular sexual needs meets a much younger man and an elicit affair begins, incorporating her previously dormant desires.

  You have to really go…

Popular reviews

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  American Beauty 1999

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Jul 2012

  I was hooked by the time the opening narration from Lester Burnham was over. As the camera tracks down the street where Joe Anybody lives in the comfortable, safe, predictable burbs of white, middle class America, we learn that this is the last year of Lester's life and from beyond the grave, he is going to tell you what he's learnt about just what life should really be about. Too late for Lester, but not for us.

  American Beauty simply…

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  Eternals 2021

  ★★½ Added

  My ex-wife coined the term 'deviant', in my recollections. It was both a term of endearment and a brutally honest assessment about what foul depravity I would be prepared to do, just to see if it was fun or not. I don't think I was that bad, personally. It's not like I came home from work one evening with a baseball bat, tub of Swarfega and a Ukrainian hermaphrodite named Vlad for a game of "how far can you insert…