Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  One of Them Days 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  We haven’t even reached Spring yet, and instantly One Of Them Days has shot up to the best film of the year for me, and I’d be surprised if it get’s shifted below the Top 5. These type of buddy comedy-dramas are my go-to, and this is a very strong admission into the subgenre. I can’t say it’s a relatable film for me, as I, a white, middle-class, Brit, am as far away from the world, this unpretentiously beautiful story…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

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

Popular reviews

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  Wild Target 2010

  ★★★ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025

  The last filmed I watched and reviewed was 2008’s Steve Carell-led spy comedy, Get Smart. Two days later, I watched another spy (ish) comedy with one crucial difference. Wild Target was released only two years after Get Smart, but in Britian where it stayed. Also, it had a tenth of Get Smart’s budget, was a box office bomb, and hence is forgotten by most. It’s not a great film, as I’ll clarify in the review, but, for me, it’s a…

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  Legacy Sequels seem to have mostly come and gone now, a fact that I’m largely relieved of since most of them were never able to live up to their long-winded hype. The Terminator, the Ghostbusters, and Neo were predictably uncapable of recreating the brilliance or originality of their modest-ish beginnings. Even the return trips to the galaxy far, far away proved extremely divisive among fans who could not be pleased with either the nostalgia-a-minute book ending chapters of the prequel…