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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
I had a fun good time with this and was happy to fit in a Marvel flick on my day off. Maybe I was biased by that? For someone invested in the Phases of the MCU I thought it was good plotting with an unfortunate amount of visible meddling. It's frustrating in that it gets 75% there on everything: Sam's background as a counselor, his role as a superhero with no actual powers, his needing to live up to the…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
Somehow my desire to give this movie a chance returned
As mentioned elsewhere: this was a really interesting trilogy, in that Part 2 didn't want to continue Part 1, and Part 3 didn't want to continue Part 2. Great series
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Toto the Hero 1991
Like Until the End of the World, this was another formative film of mine from the 90s that I thought I might never see again, until I discovered that Arrow Academy had released a special edition Blu-ray.
What gets me the most now, is how well Van Dormael captures the obsessions that Thomas still has as an old man and what fuels his desire to kill Alfred, and how he builds it up using its non-linear narrative, bouncing back and…
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Other Music 2019
Man, I miss this store so much.
It was always funny to me how other people seemed to know so little about Ninja Tune at the time, and now I find out in this film that they did almost 50% of all Ninja's US sales out of that one shop. 😂
Also: we need a prequel Kim's Video documentary now
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