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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1990 - ★★★★
Practical effects!!!
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A Comic Shop Owner's Perspective on Superhero Cinema's Past and Future
A 60 year conversation that's given us classics, fatigue and re-invention
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Tes Choudri
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Materialists, 2025 - ★★★★
(Rewatch)
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Doug Hesney
The Bride from Hades, 1968 - ★★★★½
"She died in protest of the cruelty of the world".
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Highest 2 Lowest, 2025 - ★★★½
A worthy variation on the Kurosawa masterpiece.
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High and Low, 1963 - ★★★★★
The opening sequences are operatic in their intensity and blocking, but as intimate as a one set play.
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On the Waterfront, 1954 - ★★★★½
It’s such a massive leap in performance and direction, from other American films of that era.
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The Big Sleep, 1946 - ★★★★½
You could end the “masculinity crisis” in America in five minutes if everyone under 30 watched Bogey and Bacall in this film.
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Face/Off, 1997 - ★★★★
We used to be a proper country!
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Ghost in the Shell Arrives August 21 + A Cognitive Film Society Update
400 subscribers and six months later, the Cognitive Film Society proves community-driven cinema is thriving
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Doug Hesney
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Yelena Fradlis
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Weapons, 2025 - ★★★★
What if the reason everyone is acting so strangely is the reason we all suspected?
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Sorcerer, 1977 ★★★★½
Dead men tell no tales.
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Doug Hesney
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