Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 2014

  ★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  This should have hit an easy home-run with me, an enormous and very forgiving Fargo maniac. Unfortunately, it did nothing for me. I feel that it did very little to visit the cultural relevance of its themes on either side of the Pacific (the first act is set in Tokyo and the second in Minnesota, it underused both).

  I was also hoping for a symbolic and thematically rich modern tale. It doesn't do this which is fair enough artistically, but…

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  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Jan 2025

  Best start believin in uncontroversial Letterboxd reviews of movies literally everyone has seen which contribute nothing to the community and are a total waste of time for everybody YER IN ONE

Popular reviews

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  A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  Everybody fuck off, Gatiss is making sweet, tasteful and elegant horror vignettes that reach right back to the Victorian spirit of spooky Christmas and make me proud to be a TV-license payer. If they stop doing these again I'll be absolutely miserable and I'll blame you all entirely. People have been ruined by Stephen King, need a demon clown to pop up every 5 minutes with a jump scare or they'll go back to browsing TikTok or whatever.

  Eat shit,…

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  Wolf Hall 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  If you, like myself and one Superhans, can sit through twelve hours of ecclesiastical politics when you're high, you literally can't do better than this.

  These guys really knew how to do a number on each other.