Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  This absolutely fucking rules. I was on the fence with some of Osgood Perkin’s previous films, but he’s sold me completely with The Monkey. Insane, weirdly endearing, dumb as hell splatter fun that commits to the bit 200%. Give it some time and I can see this becoming one of my favourite horror-comedies.

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  Not Scared to Die 1973

  ★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025 1

  The unfortunate truth about going back and watching Jackie Chan’s early works is that for every gem like Hand of Death, there’s three Not Scared to Die-like films. Just a rough one overall. A stilted and questionable bore that’s only real appeal is seeing a 19 year-old Jackie with a buzzcut be the hero’s sidekick.

Popular reviews

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  Love at Sea 1965

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Oct 2021 2

  "Summer was ending... Already, everything was just memories, remaining memories."

  I knew from the second this film started I was going to love it. Love at Sea is one of my favourite types of films that focus on bringing together smaller fragments of life in a montage-like fashion that captures the exact look and feel of being lost in a memory. Where every moment, every line, looks and sounds so beautiful independently and yet still builds slowly into a perfectly…

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  36 2012

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Apr 2022

  36 Shots.

  36 Moments.

  36 Memories.

  Quiet, slow, poignant, beautiful. Sometimes the simplest of films are the most powerful.