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  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Feb 2020

  This movie is still awesome. Some random thoughts:

  - Daniel Pemberton is awesome and underrated as heck. His score in this gives me chills.

  - Every time there’s a dramatic moment, and a comedic moment comes up, it always works and is never jarring.

  - The final battle is visually spectacular, and Miles’ one on one with Kingpin is so darn intense.

  - Spider-Man Noir is boss.

  - Tom Cavanagh would be a great alternate pick for Peter B. Parker.…

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  Crazy Rich Asians 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2020

  Honestly, I don’t really watch a lot of rom-coms, mostly because I don’t like the cliches of the genre. But I was interested to watch this because of its setting and its 99% Asian cast. And for the most part, those aspects didn’t disappoint me. The film looks spectacular, and love the costumes and the production design. I was completely enamored in the absolutely beautiful Singapore setting. And the cast is wonderful, even though I don’t like all of the…

Popular reviews

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  Hail, Caesar! 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2020

  I love the setting of the film and how it is presented. The Coen brothers expertly showed the wonder and excitement of 1950s Hollywood very well, and did a spectacular job at directing overall. Roger Deakins’ cinematography and the production and costume design teams contributed to the film’s stunning look as well. Josh Brolin gives a wonderful lead performance as Eddie, showing the daily struggles of a man with his job. Everyone in the ensemble cast were great as well,…

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  Goldman v Silverman 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2020

  An interesting short film that I thoroughly enjoyed! Adam and Benny were great in it!

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