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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

  Culminating all of Bong Joon-Ho's sci-fi leanings, MICKEY 17 comes at a difficult point in any man's career ever in the history of existing: being the release following PARASITE. With one foot in the eccentric and pop culture sci-fi leanings, the other seems to be entrenched in inane political commentary, which feels like too little too soon. Ruffalo's passable but the writing on Toni Collette's character was borderline aggravating (we get it, sauce is funny). Pattinson performance…

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  I feel like I've been made a monkey out of.

  Stop me if you've heard this phrase... well try to stop me at least:
  "Putting your eggs in the wrong basket." I think collectively we all did that after the box office and cultural smash that was LONGLEGS, considerably unnerving, tense and overall more purposeful film than... whatever this is.

  Though I don't think there was room for doubting Perkins after the atmospheric sledgehammer that that film was. Perhaps... perhaps…

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  Red Rooms 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  A psychological-online-thriller that makes even the act of writing this review feel like smut. Or even the act of looking something up on a browser comes across as voyeuristic.
  Either way, there's an unmistakable sense of intrigue as a menace and as a cathartic escape. And each time RED ROOMS delves deeper into the sociopathic lulls of Kelly-Anne's fascination, one sees her seedy interest similar to that of the gambler. Akin to The Lady of Shallot looking through the mirror,…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★½ Watched 18 Apr 2024 2

  While watching the most recent Alex Garland flick, I sat back at the spectacle and endless noise, and from what ultimately accumulated to a vast and utter nothingness, I pondered that thought you think at the lowest of lows. That thought being: what IS good about this director?

  The cinematic equivalent of marble mouth, CIVIL WAR ceases to find anything to stay motivated by. Whether that be an admittedly interesting setting, a theme on the practice of reporting, or war…