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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I have this thing where every time a Marvel movie cast is announced I wince because of the movies the usually pretty good actors are *not* going to get to make because they’re wasting their time and effort on swill.

  I have a lesser aversion to movies like this one where an incredibly talented director ends up losing a little of themselves and delivering a movie that feels like a compromise. I’m happy to accept that this is a ME…

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  Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958

  ★★★★ Rewatched 07 Mar 2025

  Decided to rewatch this classic along with the various remakes. Still very funny if a little dated now. When it flies it’s charming and witty, but maybe I’m a little over familiar with it now.

Popular reviews

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  9/11: Inside the President's War Room 2021

  ★★ Watched 02 Sep 2021

  Dismal reframing of Bush, a moron, as a heroic war president. Simplistic flag waving that ends on the now regular but still chilling football fan mentality that reduces foreign policy to USA USA USA USA…

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  NWR 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2013

  "I love, love movies."

  Pretty essential viewing if you're a fan of Nicolas Winding Refn.

  Moves from looking back on his childhood - tricking his nanny into buying him movies like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - through quitting film school to make PUSHER, struggling with crazy actors on BLEEDER and escaping to Canada to make FEAR X, bankrupting himself in the process. Then the upswing through the PUSHER sequels, BRONSON and VALHALLA RISING ("I didn't want to make a movie…

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