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  Say Anything... 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Feb 2025

  A film I haven't seen in years despite it being in the top 5 of my favourite movies of all time. Recently rewatched it for a podcast review and I'm so glad I did. So many great scenes and so well written with some beautiful performances from John Cusak and Ione Skye. Rounded out with support from John Mahoney, Lili Taylor and Joan Cusak.
  I feel Cameron Crowe seamlessly blended a John Cassavetes film with a John Hughes 80s teen movie.
  Highest recommendation.

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  No Time to Die 2021

  ★★★★½ Added

  Daniel Craig turns in his final performance as OO7 James Bond in No Time to Die. Directed superbly by Cary Joji Fukunaga this is the perfect bookend with Casino Royale for Craig's version of Bond.
  The plot is somewhat convoluted but it's not important as it frames the wonderful performances from Craig and from Léa Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine Swann who have wonderful chemistry together on screen.
  Full of Bond easter egss and homages, especially to On Her Majesty's Secret Service this will surely bring a smile to many long-time Bond fans.

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Oct 2021

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

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  Ikiru 1952

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Oct 2020

  Kurosawa qurantine film festival continues with Ikiru.
  Think of this as the Japanese It's A Wonderful Life.
  Takashi Shimura gives a sublime outstanding performance as Watanabe, a minor bureaucrat who is diagnosed with stomach cancer and realizes that he's already been dead for the last 20 years of his life stuck in a dead end job with a son who doesn't appreciate him.
  Kurosawa uses this story to basically lambast the inefficiency of Japanese bureaucracy of post-war Japan and to light a fire in the Japanese psyche.
  One of Kurosawa's greatest films it's well worth watching.

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