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  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 May 2024

  A mythological epic, Miller has it in him

  The staging of shots here is unlike anything out today. Sheer competence just shining through the sludge

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  Old Hollywood practical visual ingenuity is mostly carrying this rating

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  Vampires in Havana 1985

  ★★★½ Added

  Cuban animation shows its teeth. Departing from the vein of experimentalism and the all-encompassing generality that was dear to Cuban socialist realist texts, Vampires in Havana marked a return to the popular in Cuban cinema. In an amusing blend of gangster and vampire mythology, director and writer Juan Padrón‘s animated feature imitates the raunchy spirit of Fritz the Cat
  (1972).

  This is not a film one would expect from a state controlled industry; although this is entirely dependent on whom…

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★★ Watched 12 Jul 2023

  Watching this I felt I was kept away at arms length, couldn't latch onto it

  The three witches were a delight

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