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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 12 May 2023

  As far as the MCU is concerned, the Guardians of the Galaxy (both the team and the titular movies) have remained at the heart. James Gunn's films electrified my personal investment in the movie strategy, with a focus on rag-tag community. But the first movie came out nearly 10 years ago. It's 2023, and after the blockbuster behemoth's recent fumblings, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" returns under James Gunn's vision (who was fired and rehired, but that's another story),…

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  Suzume 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Apr 2023

  Makoto Shinkai is one of the biggest names in movies you've probably never heard of. Critically-acclaimed and a financial powerhouse, Shinkai's "Your Name" and "Weathering with You" are in the top ten highest grossing Japanese films of all time, and while they've burst into the worldwide consciousness, "Suzume," his newest film, feels locally like a quiet release. "Suzume" is still a Japanese animated film, which unfortunately immediately dissuade a large portion of the North American audience from seeing it. To…

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  Cocaine Bear 2023

  ★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2023

  The opening crawl of "Cocaine Bear" begins with Jefferson Starship's "Jane," with a 1980s-Matthew Rhys chucking duffel bags filled with cocaine out of a plane and knocks himself out after attempting to parachute, falling to his death. It sums up the movie pretty succinctly in that an A-list cast ham it up in a B-movie aesthetic in a sloppy way, but it still goes down pretty smooth.

  What the movie loses in laugh-out loud moments with a script that too…

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  Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Jul 2018

  I've never seen a 'Mission: Impossible' movie outside of 'Fallout.' It's one of those franchises that always felt like it was around, just grazing by. It felt of an older time, with an older star. I don't mean that in the sense that there was a significant age to 'Mission: Impossible:' a 90's star vehicle for Tom Cruise. I heard that people loved these movies, but there was never anything that served as a catalyst for me to actually care.…