Favorite films

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  The Wolfman 2010

  ★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  The most faithful remake of 1941’s Wolf-Man puts the characters in a Gothic Welsh setting rather than a contemporary one, and whilst bloodier, scarier, and better designed, the only real shame is how some of the actors phone it in. Benicio Del Toro obviously loves the IP, and he’s probably the most likeable character in a film that is rife with just unlikeable people. Whilst father-son strife is subtle in the 1941 version, Anthony Hopkins’ John Talbot makes a very…

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  Wolf Man 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Spoiler review:
  If you’re not a werewolf purist, you may not like this. If you like Universal Monsters, you may like this. If you’re me, you fucking loved it. In an hour and a half a lot is done, and a lot is felt. Christopher Abbott is fucking spectacular in this as a tragic hero!! Love it love it love it. There’s hints of The Fly, The Shining and, duh, the Wolf Man. It isn’t the knockout that The Invisible…

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  The Bikeriders 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2024

  Tom Hardy’s nasal american grumbling is peak here. 

  Fuck yeah Norman Reedus

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  Ripley 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 May 2024

  Andrew Scott’s Ripley could have created the Fyre Festival, but the Fyre Festival guys couldn’t have murdered a man on a boat, get hit by said boat, get knocked unconscious in the water, get into the boat, and live to tell the tale.

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