Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Hunt for Red October 1990

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Machines never really do it for me, and Red October is more concerned with the fetishisation of military technology and the machinations of Cold War diplomacy than with forming tension between characters. They're largely surface level, and they have to be to justify Clancy's form of patriotism. As cliched as they are, credit to McTiernan for giving enough characterisation to make technological mumbo jumbo legible (and entertaining) to a wide audience.

  Having seen Crimson Tide before this, I prefer the anxiety wrought from the claustrophobia amongst a crew, rather than the spatially disconnected suspense between different vessels.

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  The Pursuit of Happyness 2006

  Watched 06 Mar 2025

  A crowdpleaser thats hard to hate thanks to Will's stardom, even with its Reaganoid "pick up by your boot straps" conclusion. Funny how its never clear what exactly a stockbroker does, as showing the bloodsucking and whore fucking would undermine the wholesome message.

Popular reviews

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  Top Gear: The Great African Adventure 2013

  Watched 29 Oct 2020

  larping colonialism in a volvo with the boys doesnt get better than this

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  Shooter 2007

  Rewatched 27 Jul 2021

  "all I'm saying is if I was in the book depository that day it wouldn't have gone down like that"