Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bee Movie 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  Peak cinema. This is the summit.

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  The Surfer 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  This is a wild ride from beginning to end. 
  Nostalgic flashbacks turn to heightened moments of tension and then to all out absurdism. Nicolas Cage plays it all with ease. 

  Thomas Martin’s screenplay is so stupidly funny & witty and with Lorcan Finnegan at the helm this is a true gem through the lens of not only modern cinema but original storytelling. All in all, it’s just a great night at the movies. 

  Watched @ Lighthouse Cinema as part of DIFF. 

  Catch this wave on May 2nd 2025.

Popular reviews

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  The Godfather Part II 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2024

  This is cinema.

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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Nov 2024

  “Remember me. Try your best.”

  Memory is something we take for granted. The act of being able to remember is something that fortunately most people can achieve. So for this film to centre on memories as something that can be meddled with and ultimately destroyed, I can’t possibly think of any higher stakes.

  A film’s exposition can be a tedious task yet here it’s cleverly done through Joel’s journal entries informing us of the world we’re about to enter. Both…

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