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  Den of Thieves 2: Pantera 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  Keeps the heart and soul of the first one which is to say equal parts scuzz and slop with bits of heart from Big Nick and Donnie along with a slick and even more anxiety inducing heist sequence this time around.

  Unintentionally(?) deep conversation between Donnie and Big Nick where they reveal their respective villian(?) origin stories which spoke to their unorthodox and cute connection inspite of being on opposite sides of the law, although Big Nick was for all…

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  Farewell My Concubine 1993

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Jan 2025

  This is quite simply one of the greatest things humans have ever made.

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2024

  Let us lead them to paradise…..

  In many ways a perfect follow up to the first Dune, I found myself lost in the deep lore of Arrakis, the Fremen and the Bene Gesserit and witnessing the transformation of Paul Atreides from reluctant prince to essentially a god-king. 

  There were soo many full circle moments in this that I was constantly flailing my wrists and fist bumping in silence, Denis has a serious eye for thematic symmetry and along the grand…

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  Apocalypse Now 1979

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Mar 2024

  “We train young men to drop fire on people but we won’t let them write FUCK on the sides of their planes because it’s OBSCENE?!?!”
  
  -Colonel Kurtz

  Coppola and co are at the absolute height of the their powers in Apocalypse Now. 

  Every frame of this film is dripping with such a mythic and ethereal quality that I often have great difficulty in expressing my thoughts on this film coherently but here goes nothing.

  Whether it’s the majestic beauty of…

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