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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★ Watched by Milo 30 Jun 2022

  It's great to have a new Sam Raimi movie after what feels like forever, and there are flashes of his brilliance that bought us Spider-Man 1 and 2 in here, the film is a visual treat in comparison to the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and leans into a horror film moreso than previous Strange film without being anything more than just another superhero film - but at least it's certainly more inventive than just about anything that has…

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Milo 29 Jun 2022

  Third watch. Had to. Hits all the right, well... everything.

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  Alien 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched by Milo 15 Sep 2015 5

  Hoop-Tober 2015! (1/31)

  "Now, this air shaft may work to our advantage. Here. It leads up to and comes out in the main airlock. All right, there's only one big opening along the way, we can cover that up, and then we... drive it into the airlock and zap it into outer space."

  And yet another classic movie that I should have probably seen by now is ticked off my watchlist. Hot on the heels of the likes of Lost…

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched by Milo 19 Jan 2017 3

  Well, that was something special. I'm really glad that I watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg the day before because there are clear influences from that masterpiece on Damien Chazelle. Together these two movies have made me far more invested in musicals than I was previously, with Bugsy Malone being another highlight but beyond that the list starts to get a bit thinner.

  Here La La Land follows on two people with big dreams. Mia (Emma Stone) is an aspiring actress…