Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Brassed Off 1996

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2024

  Great as a double bill with American Psycho (2000)

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  American Psycho 2000

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Sep 2024

  Great as a double bill with Brassed Off (1996)

Popular reviews

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  Hamlet at Elsinore 1964

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Mar 2020

  6th film of lockdown:
  I’ve seen more Hamlets than you can shake a stick at, and this one tops them all. Kronborg Castle is the literal perfect setting, even if you don’t get to see much of it fully, and Philip Saville fully makes use of every location.

  
  And the acting! As Hamlet, Christopher Plummer is wonderfully impulsive and introspective, and a young Michael Caine pulls off a heart-breaking progression in the quiet Horatio from being absolutely in love to…

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  if.... 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Jun 2020

  oh to be smoking with Richard Warwick in my school’s well-equipped armoury in the middle of the night

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