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1988

★★★ Liked Rewatched 03 Jun 2025

Sly in the desert(s) of Afghanistan vs a couple of helicopters (which come to think of it, is kind of every one of the first three films in this franchise, right?). Sly is ripped to shreds, he has a couple of quality beats with ing cast, his monosyllabic deadpans are top-notch (“I’m not a tourist.” “You’re not sorry for getting me into this.” and so on), and the Hind D (or whatever) footage is awesome. (Other than Apocalypse Now, maybe…

1988

★½ Watched 02 Jun 2025

Saltburn at the Clue Mansion. Somewhere in this quasi-disaster is a decent commentary on idle wealth and how the sins of the parents cause their kids to be fucked up in their relationships, but you’d have to comb pretty hard to find it amid the staggering levels of soupy garbage and tonal whiplash.

In another one of those “Patrick Dempsey is the hottest man alive,” meatball-esque rom-coms from the late 80s/early 90s, Dempsey is Jennifer Connelly’s ex-college beau and wouldn’t…

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2024

★★ Liked Watched 02 Jul 2024

The Exorcism with Russell Crowe flirts with a few different interesting concepts and ultimately settles for being a disappointing debacle in the last 10 minutes (and no, it has nothing to do with The Pope’s Exorcist). Here, Crowe is a struggling actor trying to make a personal and professional comeback after BACKSTORY of his wife’s death and his alcoholism demons ruined his once-thriving career and personal life; he gets another shot at redemption when his teenage daughter shows up at…

2023

★★★½ Liked 2

Eli Roth's Thanksgiving is a movie that succeeds almost in spite of itself at times. Spawned by the shlocky ingenuity of his own concept of a fake trailer from Tarantino and Rodriguez's Grindhouse, Roth makes a good-looking movie that effortlessly es as a slasher from almost any year of the last 30 years, and that's part of the problem as the movie seems to lack a consistent identity.

For basic plot, there's a Black Friday rush at a not-Walmart that…

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