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  Glass Onion 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2022

  Glass Onion is a witty postmodern murder mystery. It is as intricate as its predecessor Knives Out, although the plot takes twists which almost fly off the edge of suspension of disbelief.

  Detective Benoit Blanc has cabin fever from coronavirus lockdown, and has spent several weeks without leaving his bath. He gets an invitation to attend a murder mystery party on a billionaire’s private island, the titular Glass Onion, with a group of famous 'disrupters' and socialites.

  Somewhat predictably Benoit’s…

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  Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2023

  Avatar: The Way of Water is big-budget filmmaking at its most stunning. The story is simplistic, but sheer scale and ambition make it an entrancing experience.

  The story picks up sixteen years after the end of the earlier movie, with Jake (Sam Worthington) fully integrated into Na’vi society and raising a family with wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), including teenage sons Neteyam (Jamie Flatters) and Lo’ak (Britain Dalton) and daughter Kiri (Sigourney Weaver).

  A human army once again invades Pandora, forcing…

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  The Death of Stalin 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2023 9

  The Death of Stalin shows the true nature of dictatorship; brutal, but ridiculous. It becomes more absurd as the bodies pile up.

  When Russia's leader, Stalin, drops dead, the survivors find the knives coming out as they try to fill the power vacuum.

  The key to the regime is controlling the narrative, which controls the party; whoever controls the party, controls the country. Survival comes from talking fast and keeping calm, no matter how silly things get.

  Lies are the…

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  Pig 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 31 May 2023

  Nicolas Cage gives his best performance for decades in Pig, a drama which allows him to be subtle.

  Robin (Cage) is a hermit who lives in the Oregon wilderness, with the titular pig for company. His only friend is Amir (Alex Wolff), a young man who buys truffles, and is his opposite.

  His isolation ends when thieves make off with the sow, causing him to break out of his rut and chase them across the state.

  Robin is not a…

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  Last Night in Soho 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Oct 2021 4

  Last Night In Soho is a head rush of a film: exciting, creepy, and glamorous. It’s an instant horror classic from Edgar Wright.

  Aspiring designer Eloise is in her first year of fashion school in London. She doesn’t fit in with other students due to her fixation on 1960s Soho. When she rents a room in a vintage bedsit she begins to have visions of a nightclub singer named Sandie and a technicolour version of the past. Soon the shadows…

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  The Suicide Squad 2021

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 31 Jul 2021 2

  The Suicide Squad is a fantastic blend of comic book silliness with ultraviolence. There have been R-rated superhero movies before but rarely one this fun.

  The story follows a group of Z-list supervillains who are recruited to perform a shady covert operation for the US government, with mercenaries Bloodsport and Peacemaker as their nominal leaders. The mission takes them to a remote island in order to destroy a secret military research site called Project Starfish. To give further details would…