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  Thor: Love and Thunder 2022

  ★★½ Watched 08 Sep 2022

  I can't remember the last time I was really excited for one of these. I don't just mean "excited for" as looking forward to, because I look forward to just about all of them. More or less. I haven't missed an MCU movie yet, which at this point is less because I go out of my way to see them, and more because I think my Dad is an even bigger kid at heart than I am and finds the…

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  Day Shift 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Aug 2022

  Some of the humor is a tad grating, but Day Shift is fun. Simple, breezy, heat-tinged, full of slick world building and some of the hands-down most creative action scenes I've seen in ages. With tempered expectations, you'll probably have an absolute blast with Day Shift- I know I did.

Popular reviews

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  Spider 1992

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2017

  Wow, this movie is like if David Cronenberg's The Fly and Andrzej Żuławski's Posession had a Russian/Latvian baby in the 90's, and it was christened by Ken Russell. In short, it's fucking crazy. It's about a young woman named Vita who's picked out by a local artist to model for his commissioned painting of the Virgin Mary. The local priest is wary, but agrees that it's for a good cause. The movie wastes no time plunging Vita into a psycho-sexual…

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  Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015

  ★½ Rewatched 28 Dec 2016 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I really really liked this movie when I first saw it. Throughout 2016, I really really liked this movie. But, last night, my opinion of it got major complicated. I've always excused or explained its copycatting of A New Hope as a necessary move because fans were bitter about the prequels. But, fuck fans. If this is what they brought the franchise down to, fuck them.

  All three prequels were better than this movie. They at least showed us new…