Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  A triumph.

  I PLOUGHED through this series after hearing over 10 people I know recommend it directly to me over the weekend. If anything, my high expectations could have made Adolescence seem an underwhelming affair.

  Technically breathtaking, emotionally devastating and having binged it all in one sitting, exhausting.

  Owen Cooper’s layered performance is lightning in a bottle. Stephen Graham is as commanding and authentic as ever while Erin Doherty and Ashley Walters are standouts.

  Everything about this show is executed perfectly with military precision and powerful storytelling.

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  American Psycho 2000

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  He’s definitely American and furthermore, he’s a Psycho. So many iconic lines and facial expressions are in this fairly lean narrative. It starts to comment on masculinity, the mundanity of working life and the desire to suppress personality (even if it is murderous) but I don’t know if it entirely works. It’s all a bit surface level, at times flippant and never as unsettling as I thought it would become.

Popular reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  This did NOT disappoint! I’m a huge Ocean’s fan so a Soderbergh/Koepp spy thriller was absolutely something I anticipated seeing. David Holmes’ jazzy score is a delight and the cast is tremendous. You have a Bond (Brosnan), Strike (Tom Burke), Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), a fantastic Marisa Abela and the legends that are Fassbender and Blanchett.

  Black Bag is suave, sexy, funny, slick and smart. It’s James Bond, The Killer and Ocean’s 11 rolled into…

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  Last Breath 2025

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  An astonishing true story with great sound design and a compellingly first act that builds up the characters. Woody Harrelson, Finn Cole and Simu Liu are an excellent leading trio plus Cliff Curtis and Mark Bonnar are always welcome additions.

  Last Breath falls short however for largely feeling by the numbers. It’s a creatively safe disaster movie.