Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  His Girl Friday 1940

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  It's very funny that this was, for years, described to me as a charming screwball comedy about bickering exes in the workplace when in fact it is a deeply unhinged evocation of (a) the blistering chaotic mayhem of working in any kind of media/comms position and (b) the amoral hijinks to be bilked from a failure of due process. A lady jumps out a window at one point without anyone really batting an eye and there's a skeezy henchman-coded character…

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  Last Breath 2025

  ★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Early on in this film, when I'd already lost interest and it had barely even started, Conor commented that it was nice to see a group of people executing their jobs competently and efficiently and that's when it hit me: we were watching the live-action adaptation of a company training manual. A rigid, plodding, professionally emotionless video guide to a 200-page instruction manual on how to troubleshoot problems step-by-step.

  This does not make for riveting cinema, lads. I watch movies…

Popular reviews

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  The September Issue 2009

  ★★★★ Added

  I still know nothing about fashion, but I'm fascinated by how seriously everyone takes it.

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★ Watched 16 Nov 2024 4

  The most garbled, gratingly incoherent film I've seen in a very long time. Why attempt to tell about five stories in one film and none of them well? The breadth of stupidity is awe-inspiring. Like, your body may well seed additional brain cells while watching this just so you can marvel at its audacity in amplified disbelief. Big Kildare head WRESTLES A CGI BABOON that looks like it escaped a Lovecraftian horror! (Bitch idgaf if you're Superman, if you wrestle…

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