Watched Back to the Future (1985) by an author from letterboxd.com
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Watched this with my 10 y/o and was acutely aware of how different the whole structure is to recent films. All the “emotional pay-off” is stored up right until the very end. And that still works for me, but my 10 y/o was kicking her heels a bit.

That score, though…

★★★★

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Watched The Dark Knight (2008) by an author from letterboxd.com
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

★★★★★

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Watched Platoon (1986) by an author from letterboxd.com
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.

★★★★

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Watched Dredd (2012) by an author from letterboxd.com
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

STILL holding up

★★★★

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Watched The Meg (2018) by an author from letterboxd.com
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

Once again I fine myself wondering, “if a film achieves everything it sets out to, what is there to criticise”?

★★★½

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Watched Rebel Ridge (2024) by an author from letterboxd.com
A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.

Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.

★★★½

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Watched Captain America: Brave New World (2025) by an author from letterboxd.com
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

I’m giving it an extra half a star for wokeness

★★★

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