Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Stir 1980

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Not the most depressing prison drama I’ve ever seen but quite a solid story.

  
  “Crims” is a cool word.

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  Paddington 2 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  The goddamn whimsy!

Popular reviews

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  Timecrimes 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Nov 2024 2

  Oh, hell yeah I love this rock solid time loop story. Starts out like a sitcom and ends like an acceptance of depression.
  Beautifully designed to reward rewatching.

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  Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994

  ★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2024

  Knowing it’s a Kenneth Branagh film the opulence is expected. The surprise is more in the speed, the pacing specifically, of the story that is crammed into 2 hours. It feels oddly relentless. Especially with all the elaborate camera moves. Somebody showed Branagh a 360 degree steadycam shot and that might have been a mistake. At one point I even checked if I had the playback at 1.5x speed because everyone was talking like they were going to die if…