Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  National Theatre Live: Follies 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Sondheim’s Most Haunted. Whoever did the sound editing however should be shot

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  Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance 2016

  ★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Eva Noblazeda’s tour de force performance in the most evil musical ever produced. Damn the French cretins who made this and death to every Vietnam veteran that didn’t frag his commander.

Popular reviews

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  Princess Mononoke 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Sep 2024

  This is, I think, a movie that likes to lie to you. It gives you a bittersweet ending where everything sweet about it just does not follow the story that was just told. The life that the Shishigami restores to the area at the end is not the untamed and uncultivated forest it was before, but the tame grassy hills of an area that's been claimed by civilization, and you get the feeling that even if it still lives as…

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  Ip Man 2008

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Feb 2025

  Incredible martial arts film. A lot you could pick apart about its politics and the historicity of an ostensibly biographical film, but I get the feeling that’s the sort of critical stance that would drive you mad watching martial arts films.