Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Topper 2025

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  pending

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  Night of the Zoopocalypse 2024

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Pending

Popular reviews

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  Daddio 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jun 2024

  If you have followed me at all you know that I have a weakness for movies that feel like stage plays and this, my friends, is a movie that feels like a stage play. Two people, one location, and discussions that range from the delightfully inane to the shockingly vulnerable. Johnson is great, Penn is still Penn, and director Christy Hall just shot to the top of my "watch whatever they do next" list.

  
  Update: Discussed on the June 23rd, 2024 episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast. Links:

  🏠: awesomefriday.ca/2024/06/podcast-i-saw-the-tv-glow-daddio/

  🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/awesome-friday/id480100293?i=1000659989547

  🟢: open.spotify.com/episode/5ywrCu6vB3rAwsLyOOGJzo?si=s0wMKKnUTieQtHKhLDOkPA

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  Atlas 2024

  ★ Watched 22 May 2024

  Netflix has a reputation. There’s no getting around it at this point. They make three things: a bunch of good-to-great TV shows, one or two prestige movies every year, and a boatload of cheap-looking action movies made up of bits and pieces from other, better movies that somehow star A-list actors. Atlas belongs in that last category. It’s disappointing, to be sure, but at this point, what else do we expect?

  The movie is set in a near-ish future where…