Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The X Files: I Want to Believe 2008

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  14 months ago, I started watching the original nine season run of The X Files. Earlier this week I finished it. 202 episodes. This film represents a bookend to that endeavour (psychologically, not narratively). There is another film I was supposed to watch it in-between seasons 5 & 6. Oh well, maybe I'll get round to that another time.
  Seasons 10 and 11 can wait too. My poor brain needs a rest. For now. 🛸

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  Inferno 2016

  ★★ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  Forgot I'd already seen it.

Popular reviews

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  Butcher's Crossing 2022

  ★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2023

  A solid Western focussing thematically on nature/god versus man, isolation, obsession, and coming of age.
  It would be too simplistic to say Butcher's Crossing is Moby Dick with buffalos but I definitely did think that at one point. The big draw, of course, is Cage and he delivers with one of his more nuanced performances, yet still garnishes it with the Cagian fire we all know and love.
  There's breathtaking American landscapes as the buffalo hunt moves through the season…

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  Last Night in Soho 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2021

  Simon Pegg and Nick Frost really show off their range as performers by playing two women half their age. Unrecognisable.