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Recent reviews

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  Scream VI 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2023

  You think you can sneak in a negative comment about people with Letterboxd accounts into your script and get more than 3-stars? Not on my watch.

  Snarky meta comments aside, this was pretty enjoyable until the third act where everything fell apart - the story, the performances, the credibility. Look, I'm not saying I know how to give a SIXTH Scream movie a satisfying ending...I'm just saying, neither did they.

  Comparing to other sixes in other franchises...this was better than Police Academy 6: City Under Siege but not as good as Return of the Jedi.

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  Planet Terror 2007

  ★★★★ Rewatched 21 Mar 2023 2

  First rewatch in over a decade and this is easily more fun the second time around. Actually enjoyed the filmic tweaks this time around that, for some reason, just annoyed on my initial watch (I'm referring to things like the extreme 70's grain that makes some scenes hard to see and the "missing reel" moment). Now it feels more like I'm in on the joke instead of being on the receiving end of it.

  Forgot how massively, wondrously gory this is, with enough body-horror moments to make a Cronenberg blush.

Popular reviews

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  Midnight Run 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Jan 2017

  This movie is my happy place. It gets better on every re-watch And that Danny Elfman score...damn, it;s powerful nostalgia!

  Damn you Martin Brest wherever you are - you showed the world how great action comedy buddy films should be made...and then you stopped making them! Somebody find this guy and give him a camera.

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  Spectre 2015

  ★★★ Watched 10 Nov 2015 1

  My enjoyment of Spectre steadily tracked downwards from the spectacular opening scene (with an impressive long single take through a crowd scene), then off on a trip around the world for multiple dull conversations, a couple of mediocre action sequences, and then finally, the worst ending to a Bond film I've ever seen.

  Nothing worked well - the humour fell flat, the old school Bond bag of tricks like gadgets and silly over-the-top action set pieces (attacking cars by flying…