Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Moana 2 2024

  ★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  This sequel to Moana is set three years later and follows Moana reuniting with the demigod Maui and assembling a wayfinding crew to journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters to find the lost island of Motufetu, break its curse, and reconnect the people of the ocean.
  Disney has done far better with its Walt Disney Animation Studios films—this being its 63rd. Originally conceived as a series before being turned into a movie, it definitely…

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  Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024

  ★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  The sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong and the fifth film in the Monsterverse franchise, in which Kong encounters more of his species in the Hollow Earth and must unite again with Godzilla to stop the tyrannical Skar King and the powerful, frost-breathing Shimo from invading the Earth's surface.
  As expected, this is an entertaining popcorn flick filled with dazzling action sequences and unsurprisingly predictable plot, though once again proving that human characters are utterly unnecessary—poor Brian Tyree Henry was forced…

Popular reviews

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  Love, Simon 2018

  ★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jun 2023

  This comedy-drama movie is exceptionally good! Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity. Seemingly a good adaptation from the novel from what I've heard. But it is an important movie, it is sensitive, heart-warming, honest and funny. Nice references to Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, by the way!

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  The Invisible Thread 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Jun 2023

  A comedy-drama about a teenage son of two fathers who makes a documentary about his parents and LGBT rights in Europe, but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family, and finds himself thinking about the “invisible thread” which binds him to his two dads and to all those who brought him into the world. Excellent uplifting film about family values, quite realistic and engaging from beginning to end, although the actors could probably have done a…