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  • Lethal Weapon
  • Escape from New York
  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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  • Candyman

    ★★★½

  • Jing Hua

  • Ghosts of Mars

    ★★★★

  • Dragon's Heaven

    ★★★

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  • Candyman

    Candyman

    ★★★½

    Remember watching for the first time when I caught it by chance on TV. It was at night and I was on my own so the gritty feel of the movie had more impact.
    This was one of the first I've seen that I thought "Horror can be more than shlock". And don't get me wrong, now I do enjoy a lot of shlock. I just had seen the wrong kind of shlock up to that point. This one looks…

  • Ghosts of Mars

    Ghosts of Mars

    ★★★★

    Carpenter for the Industrial Metal era.
    Siege movie like Prince of Darkness and Assault on Precinct 13 (last shot is exactly the same) with a bit of The Thing as well. Not as fresh and interesting as any of those.
    Very Grindhouse feel to all. Cheap, action oriented and exploiting something that was culturally relevant at the time.

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  • Molli and Max in the Future

    Molli and Max in the Future

    ★★★

    Watched this at the London Film Festival and the director mentioned something about distributors paying attention to Letterboxd so I don't want to be too negative. I really enjoyed the feel of the movie, prolly the colours were a bit monotone for the majority of the runtime, but the practical effects were cool. FX and make up reminded me of Red Dwarf, while the fact it had mega space cities + jazz took me to (animated) Cowboy Bebop. I love…

  • The People's Joker

    The People's Joker

    ★★★★★

    Haven't laughed out loud (and cried) with a recent movie as much as this one in a while.

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