Just watched this. I have little to say except that this is just beautiful. Every second, from start to finish.

Not an easy watch by any means but one that I am glad to have seen all the way through.

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Watched this with my sister and her husband on Sunday afternoon. I'd watched some scenes before, so I wasn't going into this totally blind, but my gosh, what a magnificently black bit of political satire. The tagline "A Comedy of Terrors" is well earned.

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Watched this with my sister and her husband last Friday. It's very much a "turn your brain off and just enjoy" kind of film.

Basically, in a nutshell, it's the story of a comedian's drunken fratboy exploits on a trip to Moscow in the 90s coming back to haunt him years later, when vengeful mobsters (after an heirloom pocket watch stolen during said exploits) abduct said comedian and his father to Russia to either find what was stolen, or exact retribution.

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Watched this - the original cut, in point of fact, no Special Edition nonsense - with my sister and her husband last week.

May not be the "best" Star Wars movie but it's still one I very much enjoy all the same. People may bitch about the Ewoks but this movie still has plenty of fantastic moments in it; I will go to my grave maintaining that the moment Luke Skywalker sees his father's face for the first time is one of the most poignant moments in the entire Star Wars saga.

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So, just to let everyone know, I will be flying out this coming week, to visit my sister over in Wisconsin.

I'll be leaving (unfortunately at a godforsaken hour) on Tuesday morning, and I return home on Tuesday of the following week. Admittedly, part of me's nervous about the plane trip, just because it'll be my very first time going on one solo...

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Not bad by any means, but I'd have to say that "Death on the Nile" is still my top pick for the best of Branagh's adaptations of Hercule Poirot.

Now, off the bat, I am not an expert on Agatha Christie or on Hercule Poirot. I'm also not a horror fan by and large; most of the time such movies (particularly ghost stories or ones to do with mediums) just put me off. But while I'd prefer Branagh's previous movie to this one, there are still some good things to recommend about "Venice".

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Revisited this old favorite on Wednesday. Still every bit as enjoyable as I remember.

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Rewatched this earlier in the week, as I'd been in the mood to revisit the original TMNT movie after having seen "Mutant Mayhem."

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Okay. I have to admit, I was wrong about this one. I didn't want to watch it at first, because I have no love for Seth Rogen and his involvement in this movie immediately turned me off to the news. But my mom was curious to see it (having fond memories of her and I watching the 2012 Turtles cartoon on Saturday mornings) and I decided it was as good a way to ring out the summer as any.

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