Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Order 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  Jude Law & Nic Holt are transformed. Very tense.

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Mesmerizing - if with terribly out of place cringe-inducing "songs" if that is the correct word. There's an thrilling concept in there but sadly no one comes out with any grace from this. This frustrating bizzare offensive experience has me relishing the car crash of this film's awards tour just like the plot of this film.

  A sliver of a good film in there but 13 Oscar noms...get out of here

Popular reviews

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  Da 5 Bloods 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jun 2020

  It feels strange to call myself a film buff but to have Da 5 Bloods be my first Spike Lee Joint.  He’s been making movies for over 40 years and there always seems to be a market and a ‘right time’ for his story to hit the zeitgeist. In recent years with Black KKKlansman and now D5B, Spike has once again shown why he’s such an important voice in Hollywood.  I’ve been long aware of his social and political storytelling…

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  One Life 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2023

  "That wasn't his kitchen." Said my Dad who knew the man and met a number of the children Sir Nicholas Winton saved. We were pleasantly surprised that the movie captured his humour and his reluctance to be in the limelight. Hopkins executed his performance with the perfect nuance and intimacy. The flashback scenes leading up to the days the Second World War began with Winton's attempt to save thousands of mostly Jewish Children from Nazi Occupied Czechoslovakia, were gut-wrenching and…

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