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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  A mostly fun and kind-of interesting sci-fi flick that is neither wacky nor punchy enough to leave the kind of mark we'd expect from Bong Joon-ho.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  A sleek, sinewy and very sensual thriller that has a lot of fun playing psychosexual games with its stars, and us too.

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  No Way Out 1987

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Fantastically fun ending, they totally got me.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Sep 2024

  “We seldom stop to think we are creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because we wear the water-filled space suits of our skin.” - Arthur C. Clarke

  I thought about that quote a lot during The Substance, and how complicated our relationship is to the miracle vessel that is our body; how it ultimately betrays us, but not before we betray it first.

  I also thought of another quote, from Garth Marenghi: “I know writers who use…

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