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  V 1983

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Inspired by current events, I got around to rewatching V. I remember watching it when it aired as a rerun on the El Rey Network. It’s legitimately eerie how well the miniseries’s allegorical storytelling holds up. 

  Firstly, even compared to other miniseries that would air decades later, V’s effects (mostly the model work with the spaceships) are incredible. It was common to see with other sci-fi series of the time, but I’m surprised WB didn’t attempt to release it in…

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Captain America: Brave New World is an enjoyable movie, but it couldn’t shake the deflated and basic feeling it has. 

  Pros: 

  1. Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford and Danny Ramirez’s performances earned the three stars. The partnership between Mackie and Ramirez is believable and the back-and-forth banter is natural. Though playing the president is not new to him, Ford is predictably good as Ross. 

  2. The best action scene in the whole movie is the fight at Celestial Island. It has…

Popular reviews

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  Possession 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Oct 2024

  The whole time I watched Possession (for the first time!), I only had one thing on my mind: What did Andrzej Żuławski do to Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill to get these performances out of them?

  Especially with Adjani, going from her performance in Nosferatu the Vampyre to this is a hell of a trip. Her performance as Anna is so real in its rawness that it genuinely feels like acting when she’s Helen. 

  The frantic energy is so palpable,…

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  The First Omen 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.