Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Phone Booth 2002

  ★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Ehh not the tight single location thriller I was expecting. 

  Also the editing/scripting was noticeably flawed during the moments when there were simultaneous conversations inside and outside the phone booth. It just seemed like the inside conversation was being paused so the outside one could happen and vice versa.

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  A Goofy Movie 1995

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I’ve seen Mitchell vs the Machines so it’s very hard not to compare the two movies but I feel like the relationship development in this film is just a bit too fast. 

  Also Goofy’s goofiness is beyond reckless. Stop him before he kills again.

Popular reviews

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  Mercy Road 2023

  ★½ Watched 18 Aug 2023

  I watched this as part of MIFF 2023. 

  I enjoyed the start with the black-and-white titles and dropping us into the middle of the action. But it then felt drawn out really really quickly. 

  I think should’ve been a short black-and-white concept film, it had some cool technological ideas, a sort of Sin City but embracing the COVID filming technologies. This didn’t work for me as a feature film. 

  And I found it rather confusing. The phone interface seemed to…

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  The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Sep 2020

  I love it!

  I know it's probably nothing new (my timeline of female assassin movies is a little screwed up) but it doesn't feel completely derivative as some of these films do. It challenges some of the maternal aspects of the female heroine but doesn't make Charly a completely cold, loveless character.

  Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson make a wonderful pair as a somewhat gender reversed couple of what usually happens in a spy film with a romantic subplot.

  A perfect pairing with Die Hard?