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1972

★★★★ Watched 01 Jun 2025

An incredible bottom shelf charity shop find to make up for the news that my local HMV has closed. 

In Ulzana’s Raid, director Robert Aldrich dissects the way ideology impacts battle strategy in this violent tale of a search and destroy mission. The target: Apache legend Ulzana, who has fled a reservation. The brutality of his tactics forces the young US captain, barely six months out of West Point to the point that he doesn’t know any of his soldier’s…

1971

★★★½ 2

Discovery of the century - Charlie Bronson teaming up with Toshiro Mifune for a gunslinger/samurai Spaghetti Western directed by the herald of James Bond and also starring the one and only Ursula Andress…

Not sure heroes and villains needed to be united by the common enemy of Comanche - another bandit clan would have been more appropriate.

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2025

★★★½ 4

The greatest action franchise comes to a close… with only two action scenes. 

Really should’ve stuck with the Part Two, shaved off all of the flashbacks, and trusted the audience to have seen all of the other Mission films or at least to understand why X Y and Z are important to this densely plotted story. The first 60 minutes really struggles to navigate the sprawling cast of government officials and IMF team , Gabriel still underwhelms and the lack…

2023

★★★★★ 1

Got an aching back? Watch Oppenheimer and let the seat’s vibrations sort you out! 

I’m erring with a conservative 4.5 here because of recency bias, but I think this is a flawless film. Also to note is that the only imax screen with 70mm projection is 1,776km away from me. Had to make do!

Cillian Murphy, besides looking like my dad at the end, is magnetic. Normally I don’t like Oscars for biopic performances, but this isn’t your standard biopic.…

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