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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Uber slick and sexy methodical spy thriller that snaps with some seriously impressive, intelligent dialogue, all masterfully performed by a stacked cast.

  Black Bag is an old school spy caper. There's no thrills with the theatrical, but it's immensely tense with wider mystery of convert operations and leaks.

  I've got to say, I absolutely adored this. At just shy of ninety minutes, it's tells a compelling, smart, stylish story that ties up beautifully.

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  The Electric State 2025

  ★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Derivative.
  Soulless.
  Generic.
  Money laundering.
  $320 million budget.

  Questions were always being asked of Netflix's anti-cinema approach, but this is surely the straw that breaks the camel's back.

  $320 million?!...

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  Borderlands 2024

  ★½ Watched 09 Aug 2024

  Utterly incoherent.
  Completely miscast.
  Absolute bore to endure.

  This is another case of Hollywood actors tied down by a contract, because no one looks happy to be in this abomination.

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  Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road 2023

  ★★ Watched 25 Dec 2023

  On a level of basic storytelling, it's absolutely abysmal. Genuinely shocking how bad RTD has become at writing Who. Things are here just for show at times, and the Disney influence is higher here than ever before. All over the place, but what's worse is its boring.

  Gatwa and Gibson are fantastic, I will give them as much credit as possible because they stop the whole ep from sinking, but I have no hope for the future with the level of writing at the BBC. With Disney involved financially, I can't see this going past a couple of series.