Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Her 2013

  ★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  I fear the Brian Cox voice would work on me

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  Training Day 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Feb 2025 3

  A really great film but a frustrating watch. For a script that’s otherwise brilliant, i can’t get my head around the fact that it’s hinged on a completely implausible decision.

  In the first act Alonzo says something along the lines of “The day you take the old lady to the Office is the day you don’t go home”, to which Jake agrees. He then proceeds to take Jake, a conflicted rookie, on his first day, into his home to meet…

Popular reviews

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  Hot Fuzz 2007

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Jan 2025

  The NWA were foiled and now we have a bypass and the Bishops Eye to answer for.

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jan 2025

  Do you think God gives a damn about miniature donkeys?

  I fear he does not. And I fear that’s where it’s all gone wrong.

  
   The only film fit for watching on Tory island, an island 14km off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. It still has a King, a school with more teachers than students, and runs on Diesel. Had 3 pints in a pub called The Pub, as it is the only pub. This pub sits on the road. A…