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  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2016

  ★½ Watched 08 Jun 2020

  Weirdly amoral, although possibly less weird when you consider JKR wrote it herself. Definitely feels like the adaptation of a book of facts about nonexistent creatures. 

  It’s barely a film; people suddenly know things vital to the plot without explanation, everyone’s motivations are vague and unimportant to the movie.

  I’m glad Colin Farrell got a payday.

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  Furious 7 2015

  ★★★½ Rewatched 02 Jun 2020

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes 1935

  ★★½ Watched 09 Feb 2020 4

  In a previous review I felt the Sherlock Holmes of 1932 was a generic action lead, completely outshone by his Moriarty. The Holmes of 1935, played by Arthur Wontner, is much more like it, although his Moriarty barely features. 

  Wontner had worn a wig for his previous Holmes outings, but they were no longer concealing his advanced age (59), so this movie opens with Holmes packing up his Baker Street lodgings to retire in a cottage on the Sussex Downs.…

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  Murder by Death 1976

  ★½ Added

  This is just cruel, in more ways than one. A movie perfectly tailored to my obsessions (crossovers, whodunnits, all-star casts, Elsa Lanchester), and it's marred by some fucking hideous racism.

  The concept is a good one - a host of thinly veiled parodies of famous detectives are invited to a decrepit old mansion by an elderly recluse, and have to solve a murder scheduled for later that night.

  Were it not for Peter Sellers playing Chinese detective and Charlie Chan…

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