Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Castle Freak 1995

  ★★ Watched 05 May 2024

  When the bloodthirsty creature is the most likeable character, you know the film is doing something wrong.

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  Holy Shit! 2022

  ★★ Watched 01 Feb 2024

  Love it when German filmmakers dare to make genre films. Hate it when it turns out to be shit. Literally.

  To be fair: The last half hour rocks quite well and I have a soft spot for the Münchener Freiheit song. 😬

Popular reviews

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  Commando 1985

  ★★★ Watched 01 Apr 2021 5

  I’m still a bit speechless. Of course I don't expect high art from an 80s action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lead. But what director Mark L. Lester delivers here is sheer reactionary absurdity.

  Schwarzeneggers’ protagonist John Matrix is allowed to completely go bananas, ripping cars and phone booths in pieces with his bare hands and mowing down hundreds of bad guys without any emotion. The scenes showing him in familial bonding with his film daughter Alyssa Milano are…

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  White Fire 1984

  ★★★ Watched 07 Jun 2023

  The most moustache movie of them all.