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The USS Voyager starship in space with a blue nebula background, from the 1995-2001 Star Trek series. TITLE: USS Voyager in1990s

Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) Review

Star Trek: Voyager rates minus 1 on the rewatch scale, with exceptions for the Borg material and the Seven of Nine seasons. Reset button television. Nothing ever mattered because they needed to be lost again next week, and the conflict…

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The moon looms large and ominous over a city skyline as catastrophic tidal forces begin to destroy the landscape below.2020s

Moonfall (2022) Review

Moonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is the most…

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A woman in armor stands against a desert landscape with a spaceship hovering overhead.2020s

Rebel Moon (2023) Review

Rebel Moon (2023) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Zack Snyder pitched this to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars film, was refused, and made it anyway with the names changed. It is Seven Samurai with the recruitment…

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A scene from Jurassic World Dominion showing dinosaurs in an urban or natural setting during the film's opening premise.2020s

Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Review

Jurassic World Dominion (2022) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The previous film ended with dinosaurs released into the world, which is the only genuinely new idea the series ever had, and this one is about locusts…

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Day of the Dead (1985) Review

Day of the Dead (1985) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Romero's budget was cut in half and he rewrote it into a chamber piece about twelve people in a bunker who hate each other. The zombies…

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