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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  “Work or social?” 

  Both. 

  Soderbergh goes full Le Carre. But updated for the 21st century. One thing I love about Soderbergh is that he is a director who is unabashedly unafraid of the present. Even when it doesn’t one hundred percent work, he’s dedicated to incorporating new forms of technology and modern culture into old genres, synthesizing them into something that feels classic, but also new.

  Black Bag is perhaps Soderbergh’s most successful effort in his ongoing quest: artificial intelligence,…

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  The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  "So you went from capitalist to naturalist in four years. That's something."

  So stupid, but so, so fun. Genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this.

  I haven't had the chance to read Crichton's sequel to Jurassic Park yet, but it's interesting how this is somewhat closer in tone to the original Jurassic Park source material than the first film. For instance, the opening with the little girl being attacked by the baby dinosaurs, is actually pulled from the opening…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Funny, chaotic and occasionally uneven, Mickey 17 is Bong Joon-Ho's Kurt Vonnegut-esque spaceman adventure with an excellent dual performance by Robert Pattinson as the meek and timid 17 and the "alpha" 18.

  This is not a long movie, but the beginning feels a bit repetitive as we are introduced to the Expendable concept. It also feels a bit muddled thematically as a satire. Sure, there's the trademark Bong critique of capitalism, but there's also Mickey's arc which ends strong, but…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  "The maiden's sacrifice broke the curse and freed them from the plague of Nosferatu."

  It is nice to finish up 2024 with perhaps my most anticipated film of the year: Robert Eggers' adaptation of Nosferatu. While The Witch remains as Eggers best film in my opinion, it is nice to see him return to his folk horror roots here because there's no other directors working right now who are able to so vividly recreate an eldritch world like Eggers.

  I…