The Voyeurs (2022)

Imagine L B "Jeff" Jefferies and Lisa Fremont getting off on watching, through a feverishly passed back and forth shared pair of binoculars, Lars Thorgood regularly doing it and you get the idea of Amazon Prime's The Voyeurs, a movie that starts promisingly, riffs interestingly on eyeballs, titillates regularly with a tangle of young, beautiful bodies, but ultimately insults by flinging carelessly at audiences a series of glib, eye-roll inducing twists that only the most unquestioning of viewers will accept.

★★☆☆☆

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Super 8 (2011)

 

A Goonies gang accidentally captures government secrets on their Super 8 camera as they make a zombie film, and while the kids revel in making their zombie movie, you get the sense director J J Abrams himself is revelling in making  the sort of movie Spielberg made in the 80s with kids on an adventure  in a richly detailed small-town America, but J J Abrams is also paying homage to the paranoid scifi invasion B-movies of the 50s and this dual, conflicting purpose strips some Spielberg heart from the kids' adventure.

★★★☆☆

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