Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flight Risk 2025

  ½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  Not a good movie

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  Pig 2021

  ★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  That'll do pig, that'll do.

  I don't get it, really. And I don't mean the smash-you-in-the-face-aren't-we-clever symbolism, but rather how this has a 3.8* (at the time of writing) average.

  It managed to give me no reason to really care for any central character, but be pretty watchable for 40 minutes, and then somehow become even less engaging as the story (supposedly) opened up.

  Apart from maybe the pig? She was cute. I sort of cared about her. But I guess she was too hard to work with and was written out of the film.

Popular reviews

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  Adult Human Female 2022

  ★★★ Watched 02 Aug 2023

  I don't actually know what transphobic is, genuinely, these days.

  I thought it was to do with denying the right of trans people to exist or having hatred or enmity toward them, which I don't.

  But I think, even just based on the reviews of this documentary, it's actually far more broad and around the policing of thought.

  I don't think saying that biological sex is a thing is transphobic, as much as it is a statement of fact and…

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  Dog Soldiers 2002

  ½ Watched 16 Feb 2023 3

  Potentially the worst film I've ever seen.

  Definitely the worst dialogue. I assume most of the high scores are from people who found this funny (which is fair enough as I accept it could be hilarious, just not for me) or Americans who have no idea what natural British speech sounds like and so watched thinking "gosh, listen to the realistic rendering of the quaint melodies of British conversation!"

  ORRRR, the criminally insane.

  That said though, perversely, I am glad…