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  • Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity

    ★★★★

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★★

  • The Toolbox Murders

    ★★★½

  • The Legend of Ochi

    ★★

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12th Fail

2023

★★½ Watched

There's a period of time during the film when Manoj is reportedly sleeping three hours a day. He says there's no time for love.

12th Fail is well meaning but it's misguided. I appreciate trying to normalise failure but alongside that you need to demonstrate a healthy attitude to failure, and the healthy attitude is to take stock. Is this still the right path for me? How much more time will it take? What's the impact on my loved ones?…

Satantango

1994

★★★★ Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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Final Destination Bloodlines

2025

★★★★ Watched

Perfect final film for Tony Todd. His monologue is poignant, and I can't help but appreciate how this return to the franchise is a fitting finale for him. It reminds me of Vincent Price's final role in Edward Scissorhands. I'm thankful we could have these horror icons for as long as we did and they got to live a long life making the movies they loved.

I haven't watched a film in the cinema without the kids in a long…

The Toolbox Murders

1978

★★★½ Watched

The opening kills are pretty gnarly, and the scenes with Vance training to Laurie like she's his daughter are truly unhinged.

Kent Kingsley is a pretty cool character overall.

A good film for slasher fans.

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Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar

2012

★★★ Watched

Glad the kids have this out of the way early. It's good for them to know that an autocracy will straight up lie to its citizens and conceal the existence of a diamond bush while the impoverished suffer the effects of a drought.

This House Has People in It

2016

★★★★ 3

"If you abstract too much, you'll fall through the floor." - David Foster Wallace

They do it to themselves. They do, and that's why it really hurts.