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HBO's True Detective, best thing to come out as movie or TV series in years.
I am smack in the middle of watching it right now, and loving it!
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...and, just finished it! 
True Detective (2014) -- 9.5/10
A brilliant, genius contemporary work of art.
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If I had to quibble about just one thing about the show, and there really only is one thing I had even the slightest problem with...
One thing that I felt dragged on was Hart's constant inability to stay faithful and his affairs with other women, culminating in his wife getting back at him by using Cohle. I thought there was way too much of that plot thread. I get that it established his character and his shadings and inability to focus on family and what he wants and not knowing who he was and not paying attention to the good thing he had right in front of him and so forth (one of the main themes of his character), but it was just dragged out too much and too long and detracted somewhat from the otherwise superbly lean and swift overall story.
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As Above, So Below - 8 / 10
Saw this in the theater last night, and can't remember a creepier found-footage horror movie since the original Paranormal Activity flicks. The story centers around Scarlett (Perdita Weeks) as she searches for the Philosopher's Stone in catacombs below Paris, and by the time the movie ends, I was left feeling like it was all a mix of The Descent, Tomb Raider, and Silent Hill. Make no mistake, this is a horror film like no other - it will both intrigue and haunt you beyond the very end. Highly recommended.
Wait until you see the director brothers' next film, The Coup, which is reportedly just as intense and scary, only in a war and heated civil conflict horror way. I've not seen As Above, So Below, but based on how intense I've heard The Coup is (which is not a "horror" film but more tense exotic thriller) I've wanted to see the film you just reviewed!
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Striking Distance (1993) -- 7/10
Fun, silly 90's Bruce Willis action movie set mostly on the river in Pittsburgh where Willis plays a disgraced cop and River Rescue Patrolman trying to solve an old case involving the death of his father and police corruption. A fun movie if you're in the right mood.
Great cast: Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, John Mahoney, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Andre Braugher, Timothy Busfield, Tom Atkins, Robert Pastorelli.
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Baby Boom (1987) revisit -- 8/10
Charming 80's warmhearted comedy from Charles Shyer/Nancy Meyers, who would later go on to deliver Father of the Bride, What Women Want, It's Complicated etc. Hadn't seen this movie in nearly 20 years, since I was a little boy, but just remembered it made me feel good, and it still does. It has a light touch, a warm heart, and gentle laughs. My favorite Diane Keaton role; she effortlessly carries the movie and really shines alongside supporting players Sam Shepard, James Spader, Harold Ramis, Pat Hingle and Sam Wanamaker.
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Continuing on the theme of Tom Hanks comedies from the 1980's...
Dragnet (1987) -- 4/10
Mostly an embarrassment for all involved, although Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd use their considerable comedic star power to keep the movie afloat as much as possible, with some very funny moments from both stars. Aside from Hanks and Aykroyd however -- and a droll Dabney Coleman as well as Harry Morgan from the original TV show -- the movie is terrible, and plays like one of the worst Police Academy sequels you wish you'd never seen. I suspect that might have been the point, that the movie was intentionally played so excruciatingly goofy and lame as an homage to excruciatingly goofy and lame L.A. cops-and-robbers tales, but that doesn't really make this movie work necessarily. And Christopher Plummer, really? Yikes. The less said about you, sir, the better. Some very good comedy to be found in this movie, but what a terrible movie to find good comedy in.
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Basically an early precursor to the awful Charles Grodin Beethoven family films but with more cops and gunfights. Hanks, Reginald Veljohnson, and Craig T. Nelson couldn't buoy this inept attempt at fun, with a noteably atrocious over-the-top Randy Newman-esque bouncy comedy score.
