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  Black Adam 2022

  ★★ Watched 28 Dec 2022

  Despite everything I heard, I still wasn’t prepared for quite how terrible this was.

  And yet… I kinda had fun with this anyway?

  It was nice to watch something from DC that isn’t just Batman or Superman. I actually thought this was well cast and I liked how these characters were realised.

  Plus for all the rocky production values and heavy use of now antiquated feeling superhero movie tropes, most of the set pieces are honestly quite enjoyable in a…

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  No Time to Die 2021

  ★★★ Watched 04 Dec 2022

  (Not a proper review, it is movie time with family time of year again)

  Weirdly long given how underdeveloped so much of this feels by the end, and I swear Heracles was lifted directly from an Alex Rider novel, but I actually had more fun with this than I expected.

  I remember reading a lot of lukewarm and some out and out negative takes around the release and I can maybe sorta understand, it is an oddly silly affair for…

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  Kingsman: The Secret Service 2014

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jun 2015 2

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

  My backlog of films is so large it almost defies comprehension and I decided I could probably put Kingsman on the back burner. I've had it since release day, it's a hot commodity right now and until writing this review I figured I'd said all I had to say about the title. But I was wrong.

  To get it out of the way, if I was to have any criticisms of Kingsman at all, it would be the pace. Many…

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  Nightcrawler 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2015 2

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

  While Lou Bloom's story may not be the most original, the quality of Nightcrawler's filmmaking sets it above and beyond pretty much all of the others. Stylishly filmed with a blend of film and digital, this is an impossibly smart and endlessly on point satire that effortlessly weaves around the usual traps and pitfalls of this genre and carries us, utterly invested, through to the end.

  It also helps that Lou is played beautifully by the man of a thousand…