Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Clerks III 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2023

  To begin with, this was nauseatingly meta. In the end, my heartstrings needed a post-coital cigarette.

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  The Beatles: Get Back 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Dec 2021

  I’m not a fan of The Beatles but I genuinely found this fascinating. I wish I could send people out to buy me bow ties…

Popular reviews

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  Climax 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2019 2

  Imagine taking the continuous shot from the end of Mother!, extending it to a feature length film and you have Climax. 

  It opened up with a dance sequence equal parts impressive, exhilarating and exhausting before descending into a tense, violent and uneasy nightmare (again, like Mother!) that will likely linger at the back of my brain for the next few days. 

  Climax won’t be for everyone but it certainly landed with me.

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  Factotum 2005

  ★★★ Watched 01 May 2020

  Matt Dillon, albeit a terrific actor, is far too handsome to play Henry Chinaski and that thought stayed with me until the credits.

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