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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I have been looking forward to Bong Joon Ho’s next film since the credits started rolling on Parasite when I first watched it. I read Mickey 7 in anticipation for this, which I found to be an easy read, and a fun sci fi story. I was intrigued that the film was said to be a loose adaptation, hence the change in title, and was certain that BJH couldn’t do any wrong with it, and was keen to see what…

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  Not great. Not terrible. The gory bits at the start were quite fun, but the rest of it was a bit dull. Perkins style fit well with a film like Longlegs but I don’t think it really lends itself to something which should be a full on horror-splatter-comedy. After the first act (which went on too long) the gory bits were few and far between so it sagged a bit in the middle, and then at the end they just seemed a bit unimaginative

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  You Only Live Twice 1967

  ★★★½ Watched 17 May 2022

  Beautiful scenery, locations, set design etc throughout this one and a brilliant soundtrack, but this is where the Bond films start to lose their way and descend into goofiness. There is more than one ‘detour’ in this where random stuff just happens to be shown off and adds nothing to the plot - like when there is a training montage of ninjas purely to appease the Japanese audience that they were trying to win over with this one. Probably the…

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  The Call 2020

  ★ Watched 31 Jan 2021

  Dumbfounded by the praise this has gotten. It’s well shot and very pretty looking but the continuity errors, ridiculous character decisions and insane ending were insurmountable

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