Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dad Jokes 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Heard about this on the recent Mo Welch episode of CBB and was pleasantly surprised it was on Tubi.

  Part stand-up, part documentary about a journey to reconnect with her deader-than-deadbeat dad, each element of Mo's stand up and journey to meet her estranged father weave together to enhance the other. Hearing a barrage of dad jokes followed by a tour of the prison he spent time in adds depth to the punchlines and lightness to what could have been…

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Dec 2024

  No one has ever smoked a vape like Cardinal Tedesco and no-one ever will

Popular reviews

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  Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Feb 2023

  A rare treat that works as an out-and-out comedy (from the wide-eye'd wonder that Marcel views the world to the shrewd deadpan jokes of Dean) and a fleet mediation on what it means to be alive.

  I can't think of a higher compliment than coming out the cinema and thinking that it's the sort of film that Pixar used to make.

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  Orphan: First Kill 2022

  ★★ Watched 30 Aug 2024

  There's a great 20 minute stretch where the film starts to lean into campiness of it all, but then it devolves into a pretty tame ending