Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Great first hour (albeit with a bit too much narration) but jumps the shark a bit in the second half - satire is a bit too on the nose

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  Loose Cannons 1990

  ★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Big oof - mostly unfunny, juvenile, tonally incredibly muddled, incoherent; not quite the blatantly offensive cornucopia that movies of this era can be, but definitely has its moments.

  Still, some incredibly expensive looking set pieces, and the dp knew what they were doing.

  Aykroyd is wince inducingly unfunny, and Gene Hackman (rip) struggles to make it work.

Popular reviews

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  Macbeth 2015

  ★★ Watched 09 Oct 2015

  Murky, mumbly, and overly literal, this is a great advert for the scottish highland tourist bureau, but is a pretty unneeded film. Fassbender and Cotillard are overblown and thespy; watchable, but the supporting cast of actually scottish people are far better.

  At least there weren't any bagpipes.

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  Under the Skin 2013

  ★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2014

  The woman dons her furs and drives into the night; discordant shrieking strings batter our ears; colour drains from the world. She waits, watches, is watched. Faces pass by, looming at the window, she beckons, they approach. She offers, they follow. Into the darkness...

  Under the Skin is heavy on atmosphere and light on dialogue. Scarlett Johansen is mesmerising, wiped clean of emotion, she blankly regards the denizens of Glasgow from behind the wheel of the white transit van, sizing…