Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Jurassic World Dominion 2022

  ★★★½ Rewatched 25 Sep 2024

  When it's a Jurassic Park film, it's pretty decent. When it's trying to be a Mission Impossible film, it's not.

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  Jurassic World 2015

  ★★★½ Rewatched 25 Sep 2024

  It's no Jurassic Park but it's a step up from Lost World and Jurassic Park 3. I like it more each time I watch it.

Popular reviews

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  Love 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Nov 2014 6

  I'd never heard of this film until fairly recently and listening to Lee Howard talk about it, having ranked it as his top film of 2011 on the Movie Matters podcast, encouraged me to seek it out.

  I went in almost completely blind and therefore the opening 7 minutes, set during the American Civil War had me scratching my head and checking I had the right disk in my player. I did have the right disk and what follows is…

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  Alien: Covenant 2017

  ★★★ Watched 11 May 2017

  While it lacks the logical absurdity of Prometheus it also lacks the sheer majesty and terror of Alien.

  Not great but by no means terrible.