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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Jack Thorne is one of my favourite playwrights (and now TV writers) and Stephen Graham is absolutely brilliant in anything he's so this was always going to be good. But this good?! I mean THIS GOOD?! Like... fucking hell.

  Impeccable acting from everyone (Owen as Jamie is fucking insane; what the hell do you mean this is his first professional role???), BEAUTIFUL cinematography (the DOP better get some serious awards and recognition because WOW) and a painfully compelling story. Gorgeous.…

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  Kinds of Kindness 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Nov 2024

  Jesse Plemons is the most normal looking person in Hollywood ever. At least, I dunno, Jack Nicholson has some cool about him (this may have morphed into 'creep' in the last two decades though...). And this Jesse fella – he's married to Kirsten Dunst? Anything is possible, baby.

  Also the film is good. Love love love the first and third narratives. Don't particularly care for the middle one other than cannibal representation is always good. We exist, guys. Joking. Maybe.

Popular reviews

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  I May Destroy You 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2020

  I remember the hot and sticky lockdown summer. I was writing my first proper script for screen and I decided to take a little break and put something on to watch. And this vibrant pink portrait of Michaela Coel popped up on iPlayer in the early hours. I May Destroy You had just been released. I put it on and devoured all 12 episodes in one sitting. It was heaven.

  I’ve watched it so many times I’ve lost count. I watched…

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  Under the Skin 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Aug 2024

  Let me just start by saying that Mica Levi’s soundtrack to the film is absolutely sublime. I listen to it multiple times a week. So haunting and dark and gritty and alien.

  Anyway! I am always intrigued by films which use non-actors. Always, always, always. And this film does so with such seamlessness, ease and justification. How Scarlet Johansson manages to play off of them without for even an instance trying to guide them or anything - all whilst then…

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