Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Countdown 2019

  Watched 21 Feb 2020

  I'll tell you what I was COUNTING DOWN 'til when this film died (ended, I mean)

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  Crawl 2019

  Watched 21 Feb 2020

  be careful, there's a big alligator in the crawlspace

Popular reviews

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  Lord of Illusions 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2018

  A kaleidoscopic caper through the twisted imagination of Clive Barker, Lord of Illusions is a Manichean tale of divinity and terror and one man's struggle to walk the fine line between these realms. Scott Bakula (the drinking man's Harrison Ford) delivers a truly star turn as grizzled PI Harry D'Amour pulled too deep into supernatural waters he can barely comprehend—tied to the case by the broken charm of Famke Janssen's Dorothea and driven by forces beyond his ken. Barker's masterful…

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  Black Panther 2018

  ★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2018

  Astonishing set and costume design and a perfectly serviceable, occasionally very funny script are let down by Marvel Studios trademark inclusion of 40% too much fighting and the utterly baffling inclusion of Martin Freeman as a CIA agent. I was tempted to dock a further half star for having Kendrick Lamar take care of putting together the soundtrack and then barely featuring any of it. Acknowledgement here that I'm just writing about the degree to which I liked watching it and not rating its importance, what it says about the USA, etc. because I'm incredibly unqualified to do that, having never mentally escaped the West Midlands.