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Recent reviews

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  Navalny 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2023

  Gripping. Thrilling. Infuriating. Sad.

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  Reds 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2023

  "Reds" (just about) holds itself together and maintains the viewer's attention for its 195mins of screen time.

  There could easily be 45 mins cut out of the film but Beatty, the cast and especially Diane Keaton manage to make the entire thing worthwhile.

  Will I watch this again? No. But I'm glad that I watched it.

Popular reviews

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  Bottom Live: The Stage Show 1993

  ★★★★★ Added

  Absolute bloody genius.

  I was a huge fan of the TV show when it aired on BBC back in the 90s, as was my uncle. One day I was given £20 by my grandmother (huge money in Ireland in the early 1990s - you could have bought a car for that!) and wandered into HMV in Cork. There was a store assistant stacking shelves and one of the new releases was "Bottom Live - 1 & 2" double VHS set.

  Being…

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  The Street Fighter 1974

  ★★★★ Added

  He is one mean bastard from Okinawa and I don't mean in a not sharing his chips on the way home kinda way.

  Sonny Chiba has never been better than as Terry Tsurugi. A guy, to quote Clarence from "True Romance", "Well, he ain't so much a good guy as he is just a bad mother fucker. I mean, he gets paid by people to fuck guys up." And by Christ does he fuck people up.

  It's not as fluid…