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  Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched by Eduard Rautenbach 18 Jun 2022

  🥳🪩🥹😅☺️🫠✍🏻👏🏻🙌🏻⭐️💛❤️
  Well that just came out of nowhere and committed absolute atrocities to my emotional being…

  I really liked Shithouse and thought Cooper Raiff showed incredible promise as a writer and director, and I’m so happy to report that he has nailed it with his sophomore feature film! With this he’s crafted an incredibly beautiful, soulful and emotionally resonant picture once again interrogating a person in their 20s trying to figure life out. However, he doesn’t recycle his previous film’s…

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched by Eduard Rautenbach 09 Jun 2022

  🛫🏔💣🫡😆😱😲🙈👏🏻🙌🏻👀🇺🇸❤️
  As immersive, entertaining and heart racing as everyone and their grandpa has been saying! I like the first Top Gun, but this sequel is just operating on a whole other level of artistry in terms of stunt work and characterisation. My dad and I had a total blast at the theatre and it was kind of a special thing, because he told me that he was actually my age when he saw Top Gun for the first time. So…

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  The Shallows 2016

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Eduard Rautenbach 05 Jul 2022

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  Had to scratch that shark itch after seeing The Reef by rewatching probably the best shark movie since Jaws. I definitely love this more than most do but what can I say, I love how Jaume Collet Serra directed this like a cat and mouse game. I love Blake Lively’s performance and her screen presence. It’s a great summer movie with excellent beach vibes. It’s also sort of a one location movie as well which I also love. The thrills are expertly executed and the suspense is palpable.

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  The Reef 2010

  ★★★ Watched by Eduard Rautenbach 05 Jul 2022

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  I have a real soft spot for shark movies and while this is definitely the most tame out of all the ones I’ve seen, I think it was very competently made and clearly had some respect for the true events it’s based off of. It’s not overly cheesy and the characters are thankfully easy to like. It’s a bit devoid of tension due to wanting the stretch the rubber band further than it can go at times. Maybe a…

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched by Eduard Rautenbach 27 Oct 2021

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  A technical masterpiece of epic proportions like only the best director working today could deliver. What Denis and his team were able to accomplish from just a technical standpoint alone is nothing short of astounding. As a recent reader and lover of the book, I feel as though Frank Hubert’s wonderfully layered plot and vivid descriptions have been beautifully translated to screen. My jaw is literally sore from it hanging open for probably 2/3 of the entire runtime.…

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  Top Gun 1986

  ★★★½ Rewatched by Eduard Rautenbach 08 Jun 2022

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  Dad and I are finally going to get around to watching the critically acclaimed and box-office smash hit sequel to one of his Top 3 favourite movies soon, so obviously we had to rewatch said favourite movie. And while it’s definitely not my kind of thing, there is still lots of fun to be had with it. The action sequences are truly phenomenal in how they’re presented. Real white knuckling stuff. The cheese level is also truly off the…