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2025

★★ Watched 31 May 2025

I didn’t realise that Joshua Jackson was in this, and he was my favourite part, playing an Italian-American named Victor who runs a New York pizzeria. Most intriguing subplot feels based on a decades old screenwriter’s post-it note discovered under a pile of papers that reads, “What if The Karate Kid trained Rocky?”

In one scene, Jackie Chan arrives in New York from China to help his nephew, realises his nephew needs to enter a martial arts tournament, and the…

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched 03 Jun 2025

Big year for hand-grenades between this and The Phoenician Scheme. 

Once it pushed past the boring origin stories and John Wick 3 retconning, I did enjoy Ballerina as a succession of well -choreographed and delivered action sequences. An interesting lesson in what makes a movie star and how John Wick works with the star person, and wounded vulnerability of Keanu Reeves. Ana De Armas is good, but the script isn’t there for her, and any interesting ing character (Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino…

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2022

★½ Watched 12 Nov 2022

‘Shooting fish in a barrel’ cinema.

2022

★★★★½ Liked 1

I attended a preview screening of TAR that was connected with 6iX, a ‘golden oldies’ radio station, and the majority of the audience there were older people. I’m sure they were all excited about seeing an acclaimed Cate Blanchett movie but it didn’t take long to palpably feel their growing disinterest and unease. Right from the titters during the opening choice to feature the below-the-line crew credits for the first five minutes. Then after the first half hour, every ten or…

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