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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  "That's how it works."

  Delicious, sexy, tight and tidy game of espionage, that explores the dynamics of relationships within that construct. The latter I was not even expecting but was delighted to see that the movie was going all in on that being its thematic quiver. The 'game' of it all was such fun to see play out, my friend said it somewhat reminded him of Clue. Which...yeah! It kind of is!

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  Eephus 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  "You play ball, kid?"
  "Yeah."
  "Do yourself a favor...don't."

  A day in a place. No central character; the community is. Like a modern day Car Wash, Carson Lund's ode to the twilight of a rec league baseball field sketches life onto the screen with two-dozen characters. Although unlike Car Warsh, it defies classification as "a comedy." But it's not "a drama." To label it one word, "sports movie" suits its genre, but it's such a slice of life that tonally…

Popular reviews

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  Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 2009

  ★ Watched 07 Nov 2021

  I paid $18 million dollars for a Street Fighter movie and all I could afford to license were some names and the logo.

  I give this movie two thrown pineapples.

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  The Last Temptation of Christ 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Apr 2022 1

  "Do you love mankind?”
  “I see men and I feel sorry for them, that’s all.”
  “That’s enough.”

  Love. The simplest answer and the hardest lesson.

  "Do this to remember me." the communion scene struck me; it's simply an act of sharing. Love, sharing, caring...These are things we teach to children. Because they are fundamental to impart to others, for the benefit of all. The mistake of adulthood is thinking these teachings are limited to the realm of children, because that…