Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Freaky Tales 2024

  ★★½ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  fun and well acted but also overwrought and iterative

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  September 5 2024

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  the most "that was fine" movie I've perhaps ever seen

Popular reviews

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Aug 2024

  master of sound Fede Alvarez was the perfect choice to pick up a franchise famed for its tagline about no one being able to hear you scream

  Romulus is a tight, efficient standalone Alien film that manages to bring something new to the franchise and add its own shocking entry to the lore, while also shrewdly connecting it to both Prometheus and Alien in clever and uncomfortable ways

  Alvarez takes an iconic format and freshens it up by zooming in…

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  Rebel Ridge 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Aug 2024

  a hybrid of Walking Tall, Reacher, and First Blood, Rebel Ridge is masterful display of building tension and a worthy addition to the Dad Movie cannon, harkening back to action thrillers of the 80s and 90s -- it's the writing from Jeremy Saulnier that brings the most excitement, though, as he's able to unravel slow boil tension within individual scenes in addition to the movie at large 

  and get ready to meet your new most popular John Stewart fan casting because Aaron Pierre has not only got movie star juice but he wholly sold being a massive physical threat

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