Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  I swear there’s a hex between me and this film. Every time I watch it, shit gets in the way that means it takes me so many sittings to finish it. That legit never happens with anything I ever watch, but it’s now happened multiple times with Close Encounters. I will say though, whilst it is fucking bizarre, it’s maybe the most Spielberg of all the Spielberg films - it has the globetrotting, adventurous majesty of Raiders as well as…

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  Gimme all ya got!!!

  Those heist scenes hit so much harder seeing it on the big screen. Michael Mann directed the shit out of this - he’s definitely a better director than writer though. But who’s picking faults when the action is so good and Al Pacino is at his shouty best.

  89%

  1995, ranked

Popular reviews

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  The Apartment 1960

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Dec 2024

  Corporate corruption and backscratching, widespread misogyny, philandering and an apparently forced detainment under the pretence of medical supervision are all on display in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, but nothing gets in the way of it being a thoroughly entertaining, emotive and utterly brilliant film, with one of the most perfect screenplays of all time.

  Double feature: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) - Auld Lang Syne

  97%

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Apr 2024

  Unreal cinematic experience. The whole thing felt like such an event, it was insanely intense. Some of the most immersive war scenes of any film I’ve watched. Honestly such a thrill ride from start to finish, it did not hold back on the chaos or violence at all. Definitely one to watch on the biggest screen possible.

  Because the action sequences were a complete sensory overload, some of the more restrained scenes where it was just the main characters together…