Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2024

  Florence ❤️

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Jul 2023

  Kate McKinnon's Barbie is my quite possibly my soul mate

Popular reviews

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  18½ 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2022

  *Viewed at Manchester Film Festival*

  Having never seen a Dan Mirvish film before, I read the short bio lines about the film covering the lost minutes of the Nixon Watergate tapes and expected a pretty serious political commentary based in the 70s. 18 1/2 completely subverted what I expected of it. The whole film plays out like a three act comedy based at an off-season holiday home with an array of outlandish characters and an explosive, chaotic end and I bloody loved every minute of it.

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  West Side Story 2021

  ★★ Watched 13 Dec 2021

  My most anticipated movie of 2021- I wanted to love it. I really wanted to love it.

  The choreography is amazing, the street scenes beautifully shot, the songs are musical classics... but this film, like the 1961 original, remains problematic for me.

  I think I went into it thinking that Speilberg would take all of the issues with the original film and face them head on, almost crafting a new story for a modern audience. The story of the original…