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Rated The Flight of Dragons 7/10

Pure nostalgia! I loved this movie as a kid.

Rated Cha Cha Real Smooth 8/10

Rated The Look of Love 7/10

Fun fact, my first two names are Paul Raymond and as an errant teen I used to go hang around Soho and pretend I owned the Revue Bar. This is oddly compelling given how unlikeable everyone seems to be.

Rated Obsession 9/10

Rated The Transformers: The Movie 7/10

Rated Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe 7/10

Rated Night of the Juggler 7/10

This is a New York film

Rated Final Destination 5/10

Rated Latter Days 6/10

Rated The Reluctant Fundamentalist 6/10

A moving film about allegiances at the social, national, and personal levels, The Reluctant Fundamentalist has high aims but fails to fully render its many messages. Because of this, a beautiful film about the origins of culture clash and the role patriotism and fear play in producing these inevitabilities, comes across heavy-handed. This is a bit of a disappointment as the casting is spot-on--Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, and Om Puri give some incredibly magnetic performances--and there is no dearth of technical skill.Typically I'm a fan of overambitious films, but this manages to somehow telegraph a variety of positions while never quite putting its foot down. It is perhaps too comfortable with ambiguity, certainly more comfortable than its audience is. At the film's opening this makes for compelling and interesting material, but the fact that few concrete answers or explanations are offered on the ontologies of its characters' motivations ensures that the congealed product is unrewarding. It comes as no surprise, then, that many of the supporting cast exist solely to add context and are themselves underdeveloped.All said, the film IS vibrant. When not dominated by the rich sounds and visuals of Pakistan, ethereal vocalizations and sheer and embroidered textiles, the film is arguably at its most uninteresting. One of the things I loved, in particular, was how the soundtrack was used to inspire feeling or to accompany the feelings being created and shown on screen. The sound profile of the film is itself incredibly diverse and enjoyable; the soundtrack contains oral chants, hip hop beats, and melodious instrumentations, all of which are creatively and effectively woven into the narrative.Through this film we come to realize that militancy is rarely a mask of our making or choosing, that sometimes it is chosen for us. This is the kind of film that brings cerebrality and moral philosophy to characters we often hear about but never see. While a smaller scale might have provided for more powerful meditations on the social constraints of identity, this remains a film to be seen because it manages to be both race and class-conscious, all while subverting the popular characterizations of peoples and groups in the middle east. It doesn't do it well, but it does it. And that is saying something.

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Rated Sisu 8/10

I could watch this old man blowing up nazis all day long

Rated Constantine 8/10

Rated Spider-Man: Brand New Day 8/10

Holland’s best work to date, probably my favourite marvel since Endgame, mostly because it feels like a character piece, and because for most of the time, the action feels close and visceral rather than floaty and inconsequential. Oh, and finally we get a Frank on the big screen who plays like the guy I used to read in the comics all those years ago. Very curious about how the X-men are going to fold into the MCU proper since it looks like we’re already moving on the new cast, while Doomsday has the OG cast.

Rated Raiders of the Lost Ark 9/10

Rated Insidious: Out of the Further 6/10

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Rated Toy Story 5 7/10

Peut-être celui que j'ai le moins aimé de la saga. Il manque quelques gags pour en faire un bon Toy Story. Le film reste cependant agréable à regarder.

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Rated Stick It 9/10

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Rated Patriot Games 6/10

This review may contain spoilers.presented as it was meant to be seen, in standard def from the libraryI was sure I’d seen this before but maybe not? marking as a rewatch anyway. Funny how much time they spend on how this is a rogue element of the IRA, how the real villains are all English traitors. Theres something there when Ford goes to the war room and they see the horrors of war — mechanised slaughter, really — mediated through screens, IR footage of the African desert. You can do all the guerrilla stuff you want but if you piss off the US military they'll wipe you out from space so cleanly they can't even identify you from your teeth, apparently. But don't worry, the IRA, we know you'd only attack valid military targets. Easy film paper there.

Rated Idiots 5/10

Major structural issues (which is to say, too episodic for me) , some of the gags really did not land (I can see this being pitched as “a stoner comedy for the sizzurp generation” if that clarifies anything. Cheesy) but the third act really pulled it off and the satirical stuff throughout (also corny) really cracked me up. I can see people comparing this to the nice guys, but they shouldn’t.