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  Iron Sky 2012

  Watched 23 Sep 2023

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

  One of the wildest movies I've ever seen:
  - Sarah Palin is President and has a stuffed polar bear in the Oval Office
  - Prez Palin sends a black astronaut (James) to the moon as a 2018 reelection strategy
  - Turns out Nazis have been living on the moon since 1945, complete with zeppelins full of spaceships (though there's zero explanation of their food/water sources)
  - When James tries to escape, he accidentally opens the space station to space. He…

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  Dumb Money 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Sep 2023

  This feels like scrolling through the Internet: always entertaining, needlessly profane, and featuring TikTok dances even when I’m not looking for them. And like the Internet, I’m of two minds about it. I laughed a lot (even the hit-or-miss Pete Davidson works), but it’s also reduced every person to either heartless villain or underdog hero. I’m impressed a movie could tell a recent story so easy to follow, but I wondered several times during its runtime if a well-researched New…

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  A Haunting in Venice 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Sep 2023

  To use a Moneyball metaphor, if Knives Out and Only Murders in the Building are hitting grand slams and home runs, these Agatha Christie movies are focused on getting on base. It’s too strong to call them “thrilling,” but they are always engaging. They may not win Oscars like the ‘70s versions did, but you never want to miss the starting lineup Branagh assembles. Venice stars our reigning Best Actress Academy Award winner, a lead in one of the few…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  Watched 24 Jul 2023

  On average, me every 7 minutes: "Oh hey, I love that guy!"