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Recent reviews

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  Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

  Watched 26 Dec 2024

  It's not The Wrong Trousers but still I cheered, I shouted I fist pumped the air i Cried - Dick E Grant

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  Crash 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2024

  Revisited. Didn't click the first time but I thought about it a hell of a lot.

  Now I get it.

Popular reviews

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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ½ Watched 20 Jan 2022 1

  Horrible - became more of a PowerPoint than a film showing literal snippets of previous installments... It almost felt like it was uploaded to YouTube but to avoid a copyright claim it's chopped up with random scenes from previous movies. Horrible

  Above was the original review. I have since reflected on the story and what I actually watched. The critique and commentary on today's nostalgia/remake/sequel fixation, alongside the meta-commentary of the process around the matrix itself is quite admirable. The…

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  Nemesis 1992

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Nov 2022

  Budget production alchemy

  When is a B-movie not a B-movie?

  When it's 'Nemesis' (1992).

  When broken down and analysed by it's individual parts, 'Nemesis' is a 90's B-movie through and through:

  Low production budget? Check!
  
  Sub-par acting? Check!
  
  B-list European action star/martial artist? Check!
  
  And yet, when combined by director Albert Pyun, these chunks of lead turn into nuggets of gold.

  Everything about 'Nemesis' works and it works well. Fantastic shots, inspired action sequences, remarkable style, great use of practical…