Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  This is pretty good, but I think I lack the nostalgia (despite the fact that my Mum was obsessed with Robbie) to make this truly hit. The visual effects are interesting and well put together, and your man playing Robbie has got the mannerisms absolutely spot on, but honestly I don’t think this script is all that different or special to any other musician’s biopic (that is to say, bleeding heart hagiography).

  Still, Rock DJ and the sequence absolutely BANGS.

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  Y2K 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  There was not a second — let me re-iterate, a single, solitary second — of this film that I did not adore. Every beat hits. Every joke lands. Everything about this is absolutely superb. 

  Obviously Zegler is great in it, as she always is, but I really liked both Jaeden Martell and Julian Dennison. Lachlan Watson and THE GUY PLAYING HIMSELF I DON’T REALLY WANT TO SPOIL also get a shoutout. I was so in it with Martell’s character especially,…

Popular reviews

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  Much Ado About Nothing 2011

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Aug 2022

  i wish catherine tate would eat my heart in the marketplace

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  Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2023

  I nearly took a star off because it faded out at the end and cut the frigging choir off, but I added a star back on because Julia McKenzie singing Not A Day Goes By, Jenna Russell singing Being Alive and Dame Judith Olivia fucking Dench singing Send In The Clowns made me openly weep.

  Stephen Sondheim was such a genius that even with a four hour show people would still say that you missed one of the greats. You…