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  Midnight Cowboy 1969

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Jan 2025

  I first saw Midnight Cowboy in the early 2000s when I was a teen and even though I'd watched movies from the sixties before, this one felt like the first real sixties movie I'd ever seen.

  I think it's entirely fair to say that Midnight Cowboy was a seminal part of my film-watching education. It stuck with me for weeks afterwards and now, many years later, I find myself enjoying it even more than I did during that first viewing,…

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  Black Widow 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Jul 2021

  Enjoyable! Not all of it worked for me but plenty did.

  Without spoilers, here are some thoughts:

  - This a Marvel film with family at the heart of it. Not in a F&F sense of the word either.

  - Redhead Scarlett is my favourite.

  - Florence Pugh gets the best lines.

  - David Harbour was great fun.

  - Did you know you needed to hear Ray Winstone doing a Russian accent? I didn't, until today.

  - There is one absolutely massive Bond reference here which I did not expect, but loved!

  - There is an end credits scene which is worth waiting for...

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  Darkman 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 06 May 2021

  I've seen the odd minute of Darkman here and there while channel hopping. Usually it's a scene with HoboTaken scuttling about furtively in a manky looking building.

  Had I ever happened upon any one of the other batshit mental scenes (and there are many) then I likely wouldn't have left it so long to watch Darkman in its entirety.

  There's a scene towards the end when Peyton Westlake (yeah, I know right 🤷🏻‍♂️) runs off crying and he sounded so…

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  Nobody 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Jun 2021

  Went to see this having done no research into the cast or film and knowing only that many had referenced John Wick in their reviews.

  I had a blast. Some random thoughts:

  -Nobody has some of the most enjoyably unique and engaging violence I've seen for a while. The fight scenes are so well done!

  - There are some great cut shots at the beginning and an awesome tracking shot to introduce Yulian.

  - Christopher Lloyd shuffling about wielding a…

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