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Mission 1h3df Impossible – The Final Reckoning, 2025 - ★★★

Fri, 23 May 2025 21:30:59 +1200

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ethan hunt is the most important person to ever live and I’m honored to call him a friend

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Mission 1h3df Impossible – The Final Reckoning, 2025 - ★★★½

Thu, 22 May 2025 18:05:36 +1200

to tom cruise, the streaming algorithm is akin to nuclear annihilation. those in power want to submit, to incorporate, but only a true Star knows that complacency can be overcome.

it’s lost the feel of Mission at its best: light on its feet, twinkle in its eye. this mission replaces that with grey solemnity: there’s no time for capers in a dying world, or at least that’s what Cruise and McQ implore us to think.

on the downer side, this film succumbs to so many of the worst instincts of modern franchise storytelling (this is undoubtedly Spectre meets No Time to Die in of its narrative setup and editing rhythms). yet it rails against them simultaneously by having the callbacks/retcons genuinely deepen our understanding of Ethan as not so much a character but a presence, that which looms over every room of authority. there’s more to say about the Cruise of it all but this film’s ending (no spoilers) points toward a future that excites me, and seems to excite him as well. let’s hope the promise isn’t false.

on the other hand for like ten minutes this is the best movie ever made and it simply must be seen on the biggest screen possible to be believed; I cannot adequately express how hard I was laughing in disbelief

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The Godfather Part II 3l4u4h 1974 - ★★★★½

Wed, 21 May 2025 18:16:04 +1200

the senator character is important representation for “people who love and respect Italian-Americans” and I am proud to call myself an ally to that community. in fact, I saw this movie with my friend Lance Giuliano. and I think that says a lot about the type of guy I am

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Final Destination Bloodlines 1q4s64 2025 - ★★★★

Sat, 17 May 2025 17:39:36 +1200

at one point you think the movie chickened out of doing something cool and then later the movie quadruples down on doing that exact thing but way more brutal than the initial setup…good shit

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Clown in a Cornfield 63y49 2025 - ★★★

Tue, 13 May 2025 14:46:36 +1200

sure! sorry folks some days I’m just take-free

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Mission 1h3df Impossible – Dead Reckoning, 2023 - ★★★★½

Sun, 11 May 2025 17:02:30 +1200

tom cruise wants to shoot elon musk in the head

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Friendship 12c21 2024 - ★★★½

Sat, 10 May 2025 13:51:11 +1200

just crazy how locked in Conner O’Malley is. the guy shows up for like forty seconds and nails six half court shots in a row

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La Haine 1j2b2 1995 - ★★½

Tue, 6 May 2025 19:19:36 +1200

was very tired and Not In The Right Mood For This but having said that, this was a real “oh I guess this is the well we’re drinking from the whole time” kinda flick

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The Ghost Writer 435l27 2010 - ★★★★

Tue, 6 May 2025 13:15:37 +1200

honestly respect Polanski for just doing the Chinatown ending again. this is the ONLY thing I respect him for

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To Live and Die in L.A. 121j4r 1985 - ★★★★½

Sun, 4 May 2025 16:44:12 +1200

the stars are god’s eyes

adrenaline as perversion, masculinity as the delusion of control. back in the day you could just, like, have Robby Mueller as your DP

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The ant² k1j2c 2025 - ★★★

Sat, 3 May 2025 18:09:53 +1200

ben affleck uses math to buss it down, cucking a Glendale cowboy in the process. meanwhile a wet-eyed Jon Bernthal yells about a corgi

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Thunderbolts* 166k35 2025 - ★★½

Fri, 2 May 2025 18:09:32 +1200

you can defeat depression if you have like six friends

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Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:35:58 +1200

every time Tom Hollander shows up I giggle like a schoolgirl

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Mission 1h3df Impossible – Fallout, 2018 - ★★★★★

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:19:55 +1200

it is not unreasonable to suggest that ving rhames deserved a best ing actor nomination for this film

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Mission 1h3df Impossible – Rogue Nation, 2015 - ★★★★½

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:46:40 +1200

there are actors who act and then there are actors who can deliver the line “Ethan Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny” and there is simply only one of the latter

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Sinners 5z1711 2025 - ★★★★

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:25:17 +1200

sweaty and horny and therefore good

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Mission 1h3df Impossible – Ghost Protocol, 2011 - ★★★½

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:17:46 +1200

the president has initiated woke protocol

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Teknolust 6b638 2002 - ★★

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:17:20 +1200

Dr. Rosetta Stone

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Warfare 665k3b 2025 - ★★★½

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:30:02 +1200

if I told you the percentage of the film that Joseph Quinn is screaming for you would straight up not believe me

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 122lg 2021 - ★★★

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:39:51 +1200

hey marcel what are thoooooooose?! ha ha nah I’m jokin

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Drop af73 2025 - ★★★

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:33:47 +1200

at the end of this movie a character shows up with fast food inside a red bag that just says BURGER in all caps

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Mission 1h3df Impossible III, 2006 - ★★★½

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:51:42 +1200

a movie starring the most divorced man in America as the world’s most dedicated wife guy. just galaxy brained desperation pouring out of every frame. it fuckin rocks

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Jackie Brown 3n2p65 1997 - ★★★★★

Sat, 5 Apr 2025 13:46:50 +1300

in of writing, this movie is to Tarantino as Moneyball is to Aaron Sorkin. this makes sense to me. let me know if it makes sense to you. thanks guys.

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Dog Day Afternoon 4x526h 1975 - ★★★★★

Fri, 4 Apr 2025 04:42:55 +1300

this day afternoon got that dawg in him

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Mission 1h3df Impossible, 1996 - ★★★★½

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:49:08 +1300

I once got told on tour that I looked like someone who does close up magic, and I’m choosing to believe that this means I give off Ethan Hunt vibes

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When Harry Met Sally... 41596a 1989 - ★★★★★

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:21:57 +1300

this movie feels like all the best things

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Crash 1v1s72 1996 - ★★★★

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:41:28 +1300

symphorophiliac drag names:

Lightning McQueen
Toyotathot
Chevrolaid
Hyundai Inside Me
Mini Cooper Hoffman
Porsche De Rossi

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Eephus 5u3g28 2024 - ★★★★

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:53:01 +1300

there’s no i in Eephus

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Opus 102z62 2025 - ★½

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:50:47 +1300

poopus

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Amadeus 3n2261 1984 - ★★★★½

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:15:17 +1300

spent the whole movie thinking “wow that maid looks exactly like cynthia nixon” only to discover it was in fact cynthia nixon

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The Celebration 2im32 1998 - ★★★★

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:48:18 +1300

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

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Black Bag 1o2o5k 2025 - ★★★★

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:33:04 +1300

just astonishing levels of My Exact Kinda Shit. survivoresque social dynamics, tom burke cooking, stoic interrogation dialogue, hard cuts and harder dutch angles…what more do you want from a picture

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Universal Soldier 1z6r5x Day of Reckoning, 2012 - ★★★★½

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:18:32 +1300

post 9/11 american citizenship as submission to the state, where the family and the self are tools of control. your thoughts are not your own, your reflection is not the original. the leaders above you wish to use you but they will never know your name. also a guy punches a bowling ball in half

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Mickey 17 296tq 2025 - ★★½

Fri, 7 Mar 2025 18:11:47 +1300

mid-key eh-venteen

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It Follows 9262 2014 - ★★★★

Thu, 6 Mar 2025 06:35:22 +1300

folks, safe sex! everytime you get laid don’t forget to ask “are you it followsing me”

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Kill Bill 6stv Vol. 2, 2004 - ★★★

Thu, 6 Mar 2025 06:33:33 +1300

to oversimplify my take, vol. 1 is about nothing and that rocks. vol. 2 tries to be about something and it’s lesser for it

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The Heartbreak Kid 1m1p2t 1972 - ★★★★★

Wed, 5 Mar 2025 07:22:47 +1300

what if I said this does the ending of the graduate better than the graduate

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Kill Bill 6stv Vol. 1, 2003 - ★★★★

Sun, 2 Mar 2025 16:32:29 +1300

I respect when an artist is just like “ok let’s have fun with this one”

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 236158 1989 - ★★★

Sat, 1 Mar 2025 16:28:14 +1300

if he was a skeleton his name would be Indiana Bones

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Duplicity c650 2009 - ★★½

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:23:45 +1300

it’s nice that Paul Giamatti gets a round of applause in this movie because it let me imagine that I was clapping for him too

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Walk Hard f694i The Dewey Cox Story, 2007 - ★★★★

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:35:49 +1300

it’s the cheapest drug there is

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Collateral 6t6840 2004 - ★★★★½

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:32:17 +1300

having a Tom Cruise Life Coach would solve most of my problems other than Probably Getting Murdered

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Airplane! 3c2a4s 1980 - ★★★★

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:04:42 +1300

don't think i ever consciously realized until now how large an impact the "pilot asks a kid inappropriate questions in the cockpit" bit had on my sense of humor. just an absolutely foundational text in the Max Dominguez Joke Canon

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 304b2t 1984 - ★★½

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:21:00 +1300

if they made this movie today it’d be the temple of woke and they’d be sacrificing pronouns to the nonbinary fires of heck

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E.T. the Extra 4vi18 Terrestrial, 1982 - ★★★★★

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:11:22 +1300

ET came to my birthday party and rocked the fuck out of a keg stand and that’s a side of his personality that this movie could’ve touched on more in my opinion

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Sully 5w3n3e 2016 - ★★★★

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:41:59 +1300

crazy that his real name’s chelsea

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Raiders of the Lost Ark 4o6k6q 1981 - ★★★★★

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:40:24 +1300

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

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SNL50 2g3v6h The Anniversary Special, 2025

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:21:17 +1300

fun to see purported “stars” both of the show and other mediums absolutely demolished within ten seconds of Eddie Murphy just doing even a subpar version of his schtick. generational levels of talent, a man built for this exact medium in a way few ever have been

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Nixon 2v5c16 1995 - ★★★★

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:23:54 +1300

I was respecting this movie’s restraint when it came to using the word “crook.” then the third act rolled around and, let me tell ya, they really let loose with the word “crook.”

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