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  Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022

  Watched by Kambole Campbell 06 Jun 2022

  cooper is incredibly fucking annoying and kind of insidious, big nothing of a movie aside from that

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  Rewatched by Kambole Campbell 31 May 2022

  As with many sequels such as this there’s a striking echo with Konsinski’s own Tron: Legacy - a film that I think has come to define a lot of how US filmmakers approach the so-called “legacy-quel”, and one that has itself also reckoned with a man who has been overtaken by time.

  But where Tron expresses fears about digital approximation and replacement through eerily deepfaked ghosts of the past, Top Gun Maverick is all about tangibility - the clank of…

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  Ema 2019

  ★★★★ Watched by Kambole Campbell 11 Sep 2019 3

  still thinking about the dance sequence on the rooftop a week later - loved the complicated, messy polyamory and the film's focus on sensation over everything else, pretty much beats CLIMAX at its own game

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  The Matrix Reloaded 2003

  Rewatched by Kambole Campbell 15 Dec 2021 2

  sure, it remixes and interrogates the previous one by imagining the responsibilities and connotations of The One as a new kind of prison, but this is first and foremost a film about how the French are annoying