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2025

★★★★½ Watched 06 Jun 2025

I have seen several movies about killer sharks, and I have seen several movies about serial killers, but I have not seen many about serial killers who murder their victims by using killer sharks. Dangerous Animals, a 2025 survival horror feature directed by Sean Byrne, is the cinematic mashup that the world has always wanted, but never deserved. If, like me, you watched the brutally sadistic 2005 Australian Outback thriller, Wolf Creek, and thought to yourself that the story would…

2025

★★★★½ Watched 04 Jun 2025

The only thing that would have made the 2025 John Wick franchise entry, Ballerina, better would have been the inclusion of the song, “Ballerina Out of Control” by The Ocean Blue, in the soundtrack.

The title character, Eve Macarro, portrayed by Ana de Armas, is, most certainly, a ballerina out of control, since she has gone rogue from the Ruska Roma assassin rules so that she can pursue the secretive group responsible for the death of her father, with subtle…

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2018

★★★★★ 4

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

2019

★★★★★ 6

In 1969, the landscape of Los Angeles is changing. The golden age of Hollywood is in the rear view mirror, as earnestly charismatic icons of cinema are ushered out in favor of complex antihero characters in increasingly cynical stories. The idealistic hippie dreams of peace and love are being corrupted with shady undercurrents. Through it all, however, traces of classic glamour, starstruck wonder, and ambitious hopes can still be glimpsed through the tendrils of cigarette smoke.

Years after his heyday…

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