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2015

★★★★½ Rewatched 05 Apr 2025

How the worst day in 2014 used to look

1989

★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Apr 2025

My favourite kind of action movie is one that ends with four aging men in a desert, itting their failings and letting go of their dreams.

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1968

★★★★½ 5

I cannot believe this exists and I cannot believe nobody told me about it sooner. Who'd have thought The Monkees movie would turn out to be my favourite new discovery of 2023.

Before this I always thought of The Monkees as basically a joke: a band that was cynically put together to capitalise on the 60s countercultural craze - manufactured in all the ways that the iconic bands of that decade were genuine and artful. But what have we got…

2024

★★★½ 2

I it I've probably bought too much 'stock' in Coppola (becoming minorly obsessed with him last year) that I was never going to disregard this. If I felt one thing watching Megalopolis, it is that Coppola was never happier than when he was an idealistic young theatre student, and his film career has felt like a series of attempts to say 'TIME STOP' and resurrect that for himself. That is why I'll always feel so sentimental about the man. I…

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