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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  I love this silly space dystopia. Robert Pattinson shows why he’s one of the best of our generation, while Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette put forth delightfully unhinged performances. I can see how the tone might not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for me!

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  SLC Punk 1998

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I love how SLC Punk is something of a coming of age story about young adulthood instead of high school. That’s when who you think you are is tested by the real world you are now a part of, whether you like it or not, and a certain degree of refining takes place. I guess I can relate to that part a bit since that time of life was more tumultuous for me, when I had to learn which parts…

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  Juror #2 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  A thought provoking legal drama with great performances by Hoult and Collette. Didn’t quite stick the landing for me at the end, but this film still deserved a much wider theatrical release than it got.

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  The Man with the Golden Gun 1974

  ★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  The Man With The Golden Gun reminded me of why it’s taken me so long to work through the James Bond box set I bought almost seven years ago: after Sean Connery’s first few movies and before Daniel Craig came along, most of these were aggressively mediocre, if not outright bad. One thing I will give to this era of Bond is that the set design is almost always great, and this one is no exception. Christopher Lee was great…

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