Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hobson's Choice 1954

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Maggie Mossop, nee Hobson is the feminist icon lazy podcasters love to overlook.

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  Predator 1987

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  The effect that's aged the worst has to be the Predator's blood. Everything else holds up. Especially the cast: such diversity!

  Great episode on the film's production by the What Went Wrong podcast team.

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ½ Rewatched 14 Feb 2024

  45 minutes in: I wanted to pause here because this is when Matt Damon enters and already the tense, stick-in-the-mud atmosphere is beginning to lift.

  The contempt for Communism is hardly amusing. Nolan's characters talk a big game about "growing up" out of left-wing sentiments so that they can be adults and build bombs. May we never grow up. I'm sure there's a real case to be made that publicly labeling yourself as Communist in America at the time did…

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  Sasquatch Sunset 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2024

  I keep trying unsuccessfully to assign any kind of meaning to this film. Maybe I'm too reliant on dialogue to form an opinion on plot or character dynamics. Which is a shame because I love when movies aren't reliant on words to walk me through a story.

  One thing that bothered me was the seasonal chapter cards. I don't see how they were necessary to what was happening. The only purpose they served, to my mind, was to reassure the…