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  The Strays 2023

  ★ Watched 28 Mar 2023

  As a concept? Okay, interesting, quite powerful and potentially deeply provocative in ways, start conversations.

  Yet even in execution it seems to want to be a Get Out or such. Yet never… seems to just… well, it’s shit, innit?

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  Shazam! Fury of the Gods 2023

  ★★★½ Rewatched 25 Mar 2023

  2nd Viewing: 25/03/2023

  I can see why people have some criticisms regarding certain things: I.E. Zachary Levi’s performance as Shazam compared to Asher Angel’s Billy in this one compared to the first. That I can see why it might be odd. A lot of people are saying that Levi’s Shazam in FOTG is somewhat and somehow different than film one where it didn’t feel like Levi was playing both Shazam and Billy at the same time, unlike the other Shazam-ily…

Popular reviews

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  Lady Bird 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2020

  Now, I finally understand why everyone in the film-sphere adores actress-writer-director Greta Gerwig.

  What a beautiful, sincere, heartfelt, cute film. Saoirse Ronan is so beautiful I wanna marry her, the Irish queen! [NOTE: I'm part Irish in heritage so whenever Ireland is represented by actresses so lovely and beautiful and Irish my heart melts.] Beanie Feldstein, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet [AKA future cinematic biopic Bob Dylan and French sex bomb of the ages], Odeya Rush and all others in the…

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  West Beirut 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 May 2020 2

  Country: Lebanon 🇱🇧
  Language: Lebanese Arabic/Lebnene
  Running Time: 110 minutes

  
  Writer-Director Ziad Doueiri's 1998 breakthrough film West Beirut is a beautiful, sad yet wondrous story about three prominent youths in divided Beirut, 1975, at the dawn of what would become a devastating civil war where the entire country, and Beirut itself, would never be the same again. 

  Tarek, the lead, is played by the director's brother, Rami Doueiri, and yet he wasn't a trained actor but he gives a performance that…