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  The Beast of Yucca Flats 1961

  ½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Like an educational video played on the last few days of the school year. Tepid narration, pointless story, overall really disappointing for a 60s piece.

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  Sorcerer 1977

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Tense, enthralling, and even abstract near the end. A ride not easily forgotten for sure. There’s plenty of setup and even intrigue in certain respects but wish there were more camaraderie or antagonism or more dynamics at all at play between the four central characters.

Popular reviews

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2024

  70th Anniversary Minus One — Minus Color

  Still phenomenal and still heart wrenching, with emphasis on the performances (complimentary) and on the Oscar winning CGI (derogatory). 

  While the inter-character drama and period piece aesthetic benefit from the desaturation, the visual effects and indeed filmmaking style itself works against the reimagining, pulling away from the idea by being clear signifiers of 2020s cinema.

  The result is a good but not greater presentation in cool grayscale, with the slightest hint of sepia in the cumulative sunrise, that will only really find appreciation from cinephiles and Godzilla weirdos.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  If ever there were a funeral for subtlety this movie is far and away the presiding party. 

  Any drop of nuance and interpretation is stomped out thoroughly by Pattinson inner monologuing or worse the dialogue overtly spelling out every action that takes place. No sooner will you settle into a scene and its dynamics before each character in turn narrates what they are doing and how they feel about it like it’s a children’s show with read along words at the…