Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Love Lies Bleeding 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 28 May 2024

  Not the best cinema experience - something went wrong with the projector part way through during the bodybuilding competition and for a while I think we all thought the screen going dark was part of it - by the time it became obvious it was a fuck up, someone went to tell someone and it took a while for it to be sorted. We missed quite a bit just with audio and no picture. The picture came back just as…

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  Black Mirror: Crocodile 2017

  ★★½ Watched 26 May 2024

  Mostly uninteresting until the end where I was cackling. One of the best kinds of black mirror episodes because it’s so stupid with a great payoff, if only it had been more fun the whole way through.

Popular reviews

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  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Dec 2023

  I really enjoyed watching the extended editions of the LOTR trilogy over 12 hours in the cinema, even though my legs hurt like hell by the end. I used to watch these films over and over on video tapes on little TV screens, so it was a lot of fun seeing it all on the big screen. 

  I might not be the best communal film-watcher, because I can be sensitive to even small noises. I really do like watching films…

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  Get Carter 1971

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Oct 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.