Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Grudge 2004

  ★★ Watched 31 Mar 2025

  A bunch of interchangeable American
  characters are… ahem… terrorised by a lank-haired Marilyn Manson cosplayer with a vocal fry that makes it sound like it’s burping into an electrical fan. And all of this malarkey because someone fucked Bill Pullman. 

  Fart.

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  The Color Purple 1985

  ★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  Handsomely mounted, beautifully played by a strong cast, but plays it meek and coy with its themes, and that’s a bit of a problem for a film set in post-Slavery America about a black woman who was basically a sex and domestic slave for a brutish simpleton like Mister. Post Schindler’s List Spielberg probably would have done a better job.

Popular reviews

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  14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible 2021

  ★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2021

  Netflix should make a sequel in which someone has to scale Nirmal’s ginormous balls.

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  Becoming 2020

  ★★ Watched 12 May 2020

  Out of touch elitist and corporate democrat wife of former president in fawning, hermetically sealed documentary about her book tour. Thanks but no thanks.

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