Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Lady Frankenstein 1971

  Watched 03 Aug 2019

  Pretty good! A good riff on the Frankenstein story, Joseph Cotten is great and it's also an amazing excuse for Rosalba Neri to look badass while making fountains of sparks fly out of a jar of brain liquid

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  Watched 02 Aug 2019

  I wasn't sure how Cary could have raised such "childish" children, but they're not even children really. I guess what I'm saying is I'm finding it really hard to understand why someone puts so much stock in other people's opinions when they really didn't have her interests at heart. But that's why films are watched and books are read, to try and understand a different perspective.

Popular reviews

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  Slap Her... She's French 2002

  Watched 07 Nov 2015

  A lot funnier than the broad-stroke plot would need it to be. Basically, 'Single White Female' should have been a comedy (it almost is) and this is the version where it is a comedy. Rather than focussing on the plot it's the little details that make it - the 10-year-old kid reading 'Tropic of Cancer', the straw dragging under her feet when she's being dragged, the needless 'elderly nun'...

  But the best thing is that no-one changes. This is like Seinfeld the movie, there's no growing, no hugging, no lessons learnt. It's fantastically bleak.

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  Hot Road 2014

  Watched 18 Oct 2015 1

  This might be the least enjoyable film I've ever seen. It's shot well enough, and none of the acting is really bad, but the direction and plot are completely bizarre. There's a girl who's feeling shame about having a single mother, but completely freaks out over it, and then her mum is no help and completely freaks out back in her face. There are some bikers who keep fighting each other, but for no discernible reason, so each fight felt…