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Recent reviews

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  Law Abiding Citizen 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Gerard Butler is a pioneer in the dumb guy movies for dads genre. Jason Statham helped refine the art of dad films, Scott Adkins may be the torchbearer for a new generation, but no one was and is doing it like this big Paisley wanker. To think he did Gamer the same year as this anol, what a run he’s had

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  V for Vendetta 2005

  ★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Back in the day when they made soppy liberal “this country needs hope” films they’d at least have the common bloody decency to water down a belter of an Alan Moore story and cast Hugo Weaving as some English knobhead in a fedora who can go mach 7 while killing a whole squadron of guys in 5 seconds. Shouts out to the Wachowskis for implying that Harry Hill style prime time antics are the pinnacle of anti-fascist resistance

Popular reviews

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  Baghead 2023

  ★ Watched 27 Jan 2024

  Someone let out an absolute dirty ripper of a fart in the screening we saw and it was probably the most interesting thing that happened for me during the whole 90 minute screening

  (Seen this is now near the top of the reviews for this film so now it feels unfair and I feel a bit bad about giving a wee film like this by a newcomer filmmaker such a rotten review. Just found it really boring, typical post babadook…

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  Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022

  ★ Watched 19 Feb 2022

  Spent 20 minutes trying to concisely sum up how this is so antithetical and such a betrayal to everything the original stood for without writing a full novel’s worth and the best I can manage is this: someone actually looked at the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and thought what the franchise really needed to keep it fresh and entertaining wasn’t a triumphant revisit to its roots but reactionary politics mocking anti-gun libs, Cancel Culture and transgender people all while wanting…

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