Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Troll Hunter 2010

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  This movie’s some great fun along with interesting slower moments to ground everything as best as it can. Whatever they did to make the trolls look like that in that environment and lighting is astonishing. Not to mention the found footage aspect which makes the film.

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  Horror in the High Desert 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Gary, roll your r’s please
  Seriously though, this was amazing. Totally different than anything I’ve seen. So for me, it was a breath of fresh air. You don’t need to do much brainstorming or reading into anything like other horror films. That’s because this style of film making just tells you everything you need to know, but still building up that tension and mystery to then show you the haunting conclusion of our missing hiker. Sure you can see it’s low…

Popular reviews

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  Wild 2014

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Nov 2024

  “I’d rather be a hammer than a nail. Yes I would. If I could. I surely would.” 
  Wild is a slow burn of many different emotional story beats compiled into the journey of Cheryl, whose sole purpose is to find her purpose. I watched this having only known what the score was. I love El Condor Pasa by Simon and Garfunkel, so hearing it played over and over again was a pleasure. It really brings the narrative together. She needed to…

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  Hagazussa 2017

  ★ Watched 01 Sep 2024 1

  Thank fuck it’s over. Apart from some okay visual shots and sound design, it’s incredibly boring I literally took nothing out of this. You can pretend to find structure in its narrative but none of it works at all.