Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Full Moon in New York 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Tender when it needs to be, and sharp when it needs to be

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  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984

  ★★★½ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  Turns out the secret to my enjoying this was to drink a glass of wine and smoke a joint I found in the men's changing room at my gym beforehand. Why didn't eighties kids simply do this

Popular reviews

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  Luther: The Fallen Sun 2023

  ★½ Watched 10 Feb 2023 3

  Laughed hysterically at the first sight of Andy Serkis's wig and never stopped

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  Ungentle 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Dec 2022

  Bloody wonderful. Impossible not to note the intertexts — narrated by Whishaw, who covered similar ground in the disappointing London Spy and whose Q was allowed to come out in his final appearance without fear of reprisal; whose plummy tones here self-consciouly echo those of Paul Scofield in Patrick Keiller's first two "Robinson" films, of which this is (at least partially) formally inspired by; and, of course, the territory of spy fiction staked out by the likes of le Carre,…