Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  A pure entertainment! I'm not sure I'll remember the plot in two weeks, and the political commentary is so surface-level it doesn't warrant discussion, but for the two hours I spent watching this film, I had a good time.

  A pacy, inoffensive sci-fi adventure. There's not enough meat on its bones to inspire loathing or love, so I simply switched my brain off and enjoyed myself.

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  Flash Gordon 1980

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  An rare holdout of campness released during the post-Star Wars sci-fi boom. Like a Japanese soldier hiding out in the jungle without realising the war has already ended. Funny and entertaining.

Popular reviews

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Oct 2023

  London Film Festival
  Seen at the Southbank Centre

  Understanding the Holocaust requires you to be mindful of two things: firstly, it was genocide on an incredible scale that killed millions; secondly, each one of those millions was a real, individual, thinking, breathing, living person. No film I have seen has managed to fully balance both of these angles, especially in narrative cinema, but some have tabled powerful portraits of one side over the other.

  The latter has been achieved effectively…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 31 Jul 2023

  Seen at the BFI IMAX
  70mm IMAX

  This is definitely a different film in IMAX - mainly because of the quality of the image and the volume of the surround sound system. As with Dune last year I think I’m glad I saw it in a smaller format first, where I could hear all the dialogue and see the whole picture, before seeing it IMAX, which dials up the rawness of the experience at the expense of some of the…