Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Magnificent Seven 1960

  ★★★ Watched 13 Aug 2024

  Here below lies the thoughts that have sprung to mind after watching this movie, scrambled as they are.

  I couldn’t help but compare to Seven Samurai as I watched. Unfair to this movie, I know. This movie, or the dozens of other projects inspired by that great samurai epic, will never hold a candle to what I believe to be one of the greatest movies ever made. But that can’t be why they’re made in the first place, to try and…

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  Last Night in Soho 2021

  ★★½ Watched 30 Oct 2021

  Okay, okay. I asked Aaron his thoughts so many times it was time I explained my own thoughts. So here’s what I thought of Last Night in Soho…

  I never watched the trailer so I never got myself properly hyped up knowing I was getting to see a knew film by Edgar Wright. That moment didn’t hit until I got in the theater and suddenly the last of the commercials were coming up. The excitement hit me like a train…

Recent reviews

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  Paddington 2014

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Feb 2025

  Forgot just how genuinely funny this one is

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  Paddington in Peru 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  Best birthday ever

Popular reviews

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  The Pilgrim 1923

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Oct 2020

  I’m just saying that if Charlie Chaplin were the pastor I’d go to church a lot more often.

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  Eraserhead 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Aug 2020 1

  The more I watch this film the more it meshes with reality. There’s a beyond-life-like quality about it that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to place. At this point it just feels like an extension of my anxiety and fears, sucked out of me with a vacuum and multiplied by 100. 

  But oh God do I love this film.