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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Glad to see Soderbergh still has his fastball.

  I really enjoyed getting to hearing Marisa Abela saying "george" so many times. She really shined!

  Loved how tight the script was, and also loved the weird lighting in the dinner party scene.

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  Rising Sun 1993

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Watched for movie club, Sam's choice.

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  Shogun Assassin 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jun 2024

  Made me think of this brilliant Brian eno quote:

  
  "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits…

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  The Rocketeer 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  Love these 90s pulp/serial inspired movies

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