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  Carry-On 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Dec 2024

  Had a lot of fun with this; just turn your brain off and roll with it. 

  Also nice to see Taron Egerton without a receding hairline.

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  Oldboy 2003

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Dec 2024

  A film with an ending so disturbing you nearly forget about the scene where a live squirming octopus is eaten alive.

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  The Babadook 2014

  ★★★½ Rewatched 04 Jul 2020

  At face value, The Babadook is a story about a sinister entity tormenting a windowed mother and her young son. Delve a little deeper though and you’ll see the real horror truly starts when you read between the lines.

  This film is unnerving, anxiety-inducing and at times honestly quite scary. Essie Davis’s performance as a struggling widowed mother to a heavily dependent (and at times unbearable) son was faultless. Watching her wrestle with sleep depravation and overwhelming grief onscreen actually…

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  The Neon Demon 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2020

  There’s films that you watch and you move on from the experience soon after the credits roll. Then there’s films that stick with you and remain on your mind for weeks or months after you watch them. The Neon Demon is the latter. 

  Refn’s psychological horror follows Jesse, a young inspiring model who has just moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams. However, she soon learns about the “dog-eat-dog” nature of the modelling industry and a transformation begins. 

  Everything…

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