Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Red One 2024

  ★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2024

  Way more entertaining to watch than it looks. Still a generic Christmas dump fest, but of all the Christmas dump fests, it's leading the pack. Perhaps the most 3/5 movie of all time

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  Transformers One 2024

  ★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2024

  I feel so mean doing this to Transformers One, a movie I wanted to root for going in, but there's as many misses as there are hits with this latest rendition.

  As I mentioned in my IF review, kids deserve the best we can give them, and I will never give passes for bad storytelling to children's media. While the characters are fun and I enjoyed seeing these robots disconnected from any human nonsense, The plot here is relying on…

Popular reviews

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ★ Watched 25 Aug 2024

  I don't think most people would give this movie such a low rating, and despite my one star rating, I didn't hate watching Deadpool & Wolverine. My lack of praise comes from the very simple idea that this is not a type of movie I would ever pay to see in hindsight. Put curtly- Deadpool & Wolverine is a long-form sketch comedy show with a lot of CGI and the vague whiff of a plot line. The jokes are pretty funny at…

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  IF 2024

  ★½ Watched 26 Sep 2024

  There is not, and has never been, a solid defense for the belief that children's media has an excuse to be shit. IF, like so many others, plugs it's ears at this notion. Too many directors and media executives are in agreement that if a movie is cute, and has at least one joke that winks at the parents in the audience, all other standards for a good film can be tossed aside. It's not true. There are countless movies…