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Recent reviews

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  Rings 2017

  ★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  Some peak Kino to ring in 2025. Matilda Lutz was in the excellent film REVENGE the same year this slop came out!

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  Kraven the Hunter 2024

  ½ Watched 21 Dec 2024 1

  Soulless, cliche, Sony boardroom checkbox, CGI splatter filled, zero character, zero energy, snoozefest - I look back fondly on Madam Web.

Popular reviews

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  The Grandmaster 2013

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2013

  Emphasizing the art is martial arts, Wong Kar Wai's subtle epic The Grandmaster fuses lyrical motion, technique and waxing philosophical banters amidst tragic and forlorn characters in times of turmoil and loss. Despite this, like the complex fighting styles presented the film hides each layer of emotion in each character, deftly revealed in each action, choice and ultimately path each master chooses to take.

  The cinematography is sublime, and the film is presented as melancholic memories with importance placed on…

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  Oz the Great and Powerful 2013

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2013 1

  A beautiful blockbuster instilled with Raimi's madness, a good performance from Franco and a great one from Williams. Always a pleasure to see Rachel Weisz and the three sisters including Kunis in the first half are powerfully represented and quite ahem sexy and fetishistic.

  Kunis lets down proceedings a lot in the second half, but by this stage I am onboard as the powerful world is represented stunningly with amazing 3D and vibrancy.

  Great allusions to The Wizard of Oz…