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  Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2019 7

  After decades of galloping around the cosmos, the Enterprise crew has grown old. Seasoned? Sure. Bitter? Yes. Prejudiced? Absolutely. So after a lifetime of serving up a dish best served cold against the aggressive Klingons, the time has come for a long awaited peace. Who better to cater than James T. Kirk?

  In the first five minutes, this science fiction odyssey tackles more subtext than a trillion pretenders: the Klingon moon Praxis explodes with devastating results (officially birthing the Praxis…

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  Ghostbusters 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Oct 2019 2

  Film was not born as art. Film was an experiment that expanded into entertainment, requiring time before it could be conferred with artistry. Paul Sylbert, a college professor, Academy Award winning production designer, and dear friend, had this to say on the subject:

  "Don't try to intellectualize film, or make it profound in the academic sense. It is a popular vernacular form. Simplicity and directness are two of its virtues."

  After decades of analysis, it is apparent to me that…

Recent reviews

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  Star Trek: Generations 1994

  ★★★★ Rewatched 09 Jun 2023

  For one reason or another, I have been fixated on the finite nature of existence of late. We die. Then we're nothing. It's sad. It sucks. There's nothing we can do about it. And our legacy is ephemeral at best.

  But then there's the Nexus.

  It doesn't matter whether religion collects on its promissory rewards, because once you're dead, you can't bitch about getting ripped off. But the Nexus guarantees you eternal happiness. This is the corporeal answer to the…

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  The Boogeyman 2023

  ★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2023

  Possessed of predictable lore and tricks, this short-order supernatural chiller pushes enough buttons to be tense without much substance. - ▲

Popular reviews

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Jan 2018 4

  There's an elegant simplicity buried beneath the subtly soulful performances, elaborately filthy cyberpunk production design, labyrinthine procedural noir mystery, and gorgeous cinematography of this pseudo-cult paragon.

  What does it mean to make a choice?

  KD6-3.7 was designed for a purpose: 'retire' rogue replicants. He's good at his job, sheepishly avoiding the ire of his human superiors as he carves out his niche and saves up bonuses to enhance his Joi unit, the one thing that brings him a modicum of…

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Dec 2017 6

  I received a blu-ray Hitchcock set for Christmas I'd asked for primarily because I wished to own this film on the format. And I was once again swept away by its subtle, and not-so-subtle charms.

  The maze that is the film's entire first act is a sort of ponderous, leisurely game whose rules hypnotically obsess a man who desperately wishes to be useful and to be a good guy. All the while, the bows of Hermann's string score seem to…