Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Aladdin 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  Always a treat to revisit the Disney Renaissance films. The wife and I were signing “Prince Ali” randomly this morning so we decided to rewatch it.

  Classic movie, the animation is excellent and colourful and Robin Williams as the Genie is just an all time great performance, even if most of his references still fly over my head. 

  My wife and I basically remembered the words to all the songs, not just “Prince Ali”, it’s amazing the timeless qualities the Disney films of this era have.

  The Cave of Wonders sequence will always remind me how impossible that level was on the Genesis game.

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  District 9 2009

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  Man this movie blew me away when I saw it in theatres for the first time. The social commentary, while heavy handed and maybe has a weird relationship with the white saviour trope, worked for me. The effects are realistic and raw, and I like that the “Prawns” have broken down, janky technology. Excellent performance by Sharlto Copley here as well.

  I still really like this movie, and it’s a shame we haven’t gotten a sequel. Neill Blomkamp seemed poised to be the next great sci-fi director after this movie but his follow up efforts really didn’t pan out.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  A solid outing from director Bong Joon Ho, Mickey 17 explores the commodification of human life and newer, even lower layers to our already depressing capitalist social strata.

  The world and design of the film is excellent, everything has been considered a great deal and the world seems lived in and plausible. I liked the detail of every calorie being accounted for on the long journey.

  Robert Pattinson is great as Mickey Barnes, who signs up to be an “expendable”…

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  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  I was informed I could skip two and three, so straight on to four!

  Surprising amount of tear jerking in this romcom; the random snippets of Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy worked pretty well. The movie is actually a decent exploration of grief and moving on from a loss.

  The rest of it, particularly the stuff around Bridget Jones dating a guy 20 something years her junior, I was less into, but it’s overall fairly harmless.

  I just watched the first…