Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Minority Report 2002

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  "RRRRRUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

  This movie is banked under the list of movies that blew my mind and heavily influenced me as a kid. This is arguably the movie that commenced my love affair with Dick (the author) and got me reading science fiction properly. I had seen Blade Runner by this point which is one of my favourites but this movie pushed me over the edge.

  The premise here is simple, in the future they can predict crime before it happens and…

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  Edge of Tomorrow 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  LIVE. DIE. RE-WATCH.

  I bloody love Tom Cruise. The man consistently delivers and one of my favourite Tom Cruise's is sci-fi Tom Cruise. "The Edge of Tomorrow" or "LIVE.DIE.REPEAT", depending on your locale and an arguably botched marketing campaign, is a brutal time-loop science-fiction rollercoaster.

  Cruise plays the unlikely hero Cage, a political puppet thrown into the front line against a poorly understood alien assault, for reasons I am still not completely sure. He then gets stuck in a time…

Popular reviews

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  Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Oct 2023

  This film is so much more accomplished than its predecessor. That is not to say the first is bad by any means but how well crafted Matt Reeves's study of humanity really is.

  Picking up years after the first film, the virus that was revealed has now wiped out most of the planet. The opening intro is particularly sombre in a post COVID world and quite unsettling as it echos the news reels witnessed during our own pandemic.

  What follows…

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  Chernobyl 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2023

  This is compulsive viewing from episode 1 and found myself racing home each day after work to pop on the next instalment.

  A concise, short but sweet mini series that wastes none of its screen time on superfluous material and I would argue that everything shown adds to the overall product.

  I went in to this relatively blind. I knew there was a disaster but I had no idea of the details, the human factor elements and governmental hubris that…