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Late Night with the Devil - (2023)
This was oh so very memorable - I love David Dastmalchian, and he's perfect here as the 70s late night talk show host who is desperate for ratings, and vulnerable after his wife dies of cancer. We get to watch his final show where, in his quest for controversy, he invites the wrong kind of trouble and the results are pretty spectacular, I must say. Can't wait to see this one again - it has a firm hold on that 70s nostalgia that seems to be popular now, and a nicely paced build-up to an utterly insane climax. Interesting production design and the mix of "televised" footage combined with behind the scenes black and white was interesting as well. Most importantly - I enjoyed watching it a whole lot.
8/10
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The Expendables 2 - (2012)
The action was much improved, and overall the quality seems better in this second
Expendables movie - though I have to say parts of this were hilariously crazy. Characters appear out of nowhere, mid-action scene - as if they just stumbled across the gang despite them being far away in some secluded corner of Albania. Chuck Norris pops his head up, and awkwardly delivers one of his own Chuck Norris jokes (the one about him being bitten by a poisonous snake, and after 5 days of agony the snake dies), and Arnold Schwarzenegger gets more to do, along with Bruce Willis who just suddenly join in on the action during the film's climax. Because why not. Jean-Claude Van Damme makes for a great villain, and everyone bar Mickey Rourke returns from the first film. Hey, it's a nice paycheck - and none of these guys would pull in the same box office alone.
6/10
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It's Such a Beautiful Day - (2012)
Contemplations about life, the universe and our place in it fill the thoughts of Bill, who is ill, and whose mind is at the same time failing him. Don Hertzfeldt's comical, and cosmic, masterpiece. Reviewed
here, in my watchlist thread.
9/10