Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Over the Top 1987

  ★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Is it a great movie? Not by any means. It’s a movie that’s probably best enjoyed with your favourite beverage and a few friends. It’s a slice of pure 80s cheese that takes itself just seriously enough to work in some emotional beats that actually land, yet never forgets that it’s a movie about arm wrestling. Turn your brain off, and your hat backwards and you’ll have some fun with this one.

  READ MY FULL REVIEW AT BALLS ON FILM.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  I thought this was fantastic. Exciting, funny and just the right amount of bonkers. It’s crazy to think that this has been delayed for so long and was made ages ago. It feels so fresh and of the time in so many ways.

Popular reviews

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  A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio 2019

  ½ Watched 07 Mar 2020

  FrightFest Glasgow 2020

  There’s a point in this where a character screams “please just execute me already” and I don’t think a line in a film has ever summed up my viewing experience quite so accurately.

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  Green Room 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2016

  I'm not going to write much about 'Green Room'. You should go into it knowing as little as possible. Don't read any of the plot or even watch the trailer. Just watch it.

  A brutal, terrifying, nerve-shredding slice of cinema. A masterclass in tension. I had a lump in my throat for pretty much the entire final hour.

  Simply brilliant. After 'Blue Ruin' and now this, I can't wait to see what Jeremy Saulnier does next.