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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  Asks the age-old question: can human and robot truly be friend? Second-worst installment in the series after Alien 3. Watched on a flight from Nairobi to Bangkok.

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  The Young Pope 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Jan 2025

  We need a spin-off where Gary Oldman plays the ghost of Cardinal Newman providing the DVD commentary for this

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  Dune 2021

  ★★ Watched 14 Sep 2021 2

  Jodorowsky couldn't do it, Lynch did it and failed, Villeneuve did it better, but not by much -- maybe James Cameron could do it? Or maybe the source material is just a dull turgid mess that we should stop adapting.

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  Bullet Train 2022

  ½ Watched 01 Aug 2022 2

  Incredibly slick, and one of the worst things I’ve seen in ages. I don’t know what Tarantino did in a past life to deserve it, but he has to live to see his own self-consciously derivative homage-driven style coopted by the likes of Guy Ritchie, and then whoever else came next, and then on and on from there, until this is where we are now, on the omicron variant of this shit, and it gradually merged with the Waititification and…

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