Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Oddity 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  A wonderfully atmospheric tale of murder and the supernatural plays like an extended Ghost Story For Christmas.

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  Vox Lux 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I liked the first half which promised something different from the usual music film cliches, but the second half is all coke snorting and alcoholic meltdowns minutes before she is supposed to take to the stage.
  A couple of interesting ideas, strong visuals and editing go someway to making up for the way it all collapses when we are reintroduced to Celeste as a 31 year old.

Popular reviews

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  The Little Drummer Girl 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2018

  Yes, you needed to concentrate; but...that camera work! Florence Pugh! the architecture! Quality stuff.

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  Blue Blood 1973

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2019

  Decadence and debauchery, both upstairs and downstairs at Longleat in this odd and occasionally successful psychodrama. Although seemingly marketed at the horror audience this is more The Servant than The Omen and the devilry element isn't very well integrated into the overall narrative and the red-filter witchcraft scenes feel a bit half-hearted, a contrivance to explain the film's narrative.
  Whilst admitting I am in the minority on this, I liked Reed's performance and accent, which is a weird hybrid of cockney and faux posh all of which gives the sense of his taking the piss out of his employers' posh accents.