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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★ Watched 31 Aug 2017

  4.5/5

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  War Machine 2017

  ★★★ Watched 28 May 2017

  Tone loco! or tone-deaf — half amusing, half amusia. Bonkers Brad Pitt; angry-daft Anthony Michael Hall. Nice to see David Michôd shake up his choice in material. Fun in fits and starts, but slightly wearing after a spell.

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  I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Oct 2016

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  Jason and the Argonauts 1963

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 30 Mar 2016 2

  I give it 9 golden fleeces out of 10.

  1 for the blinking masthead of Hera. Great eyelashes.

  1 for Hercules' hair and beard. Lustrous, wavy, world-beating.

  1 for Talos. I couldn't take my eyes off him; he was so bronzy.

  1 for the pair of Harpies. Darn winged beasts. Darn hungry winged beasts. Darn hungry winged blue beasts.

  1 for Medea, the high priestess of giving so much shade to everyone she meets.

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