Favorite films

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  Frozen 2010

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2025 1

  Well, skiing is off the list of things I'll ever do again.

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  Point Blank 1967

  ★★★ Watched 08 Nov 2021

  All of the traditional heist movie tropes are present in Point Blank but they've been jumbled up. As the film opens the money has already been stolen, the partnerships have fallen through and it's time for someone to get screwed over. In this case the screwee is a man known only as Walker, who has been left for dead in the abandoned ruins of Alcatraz and will spend the entire film trying to get back what he's owed. Along the…

Popular reviews

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  Gigi (From 9 to 5) 2001

  Watched 21 Jan 2021

  There's a lot against this production - the sound quality isn't, the actors aren't and the film budget ain't.

  
  But somehow it works... This kind of energy and naiveté simply can't be manufactured; a film like "Gigi (From 9 to 5)" is a product of what it is to actually be young. Every one of these kids looks like they were having a blast filming it and by the end I was sharing in their joy.

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  Aliens vs Predator: Requiem 2007

  ★ Watched 21 Sep 2021 1

  AVP: Requiem is a film where nothing works. The action scenes are too dark to see and cut way too fast, almost as if they didn't want you to focus on the aliens' costumes and effects. The rest of the film consists of unconvincing drama about undeveloped characters... with a little gratitous T+A thrown in to help degrade these franchises even further.

  
  In the original films Ripley had access to all sorts of future tech and was barely able to…