Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Woman King 2022

  ★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2023

  I like the way that the film allowed the women to be warriors, but still feminine. Really loved the casting and the action scenes - but a couple of the plot elements were a little too hackneyed for my liking.

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  Once Upon a Time in China II 1992

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2023

  I love a martial arts film that shows you a set and them makes full use of it. I don't know if there was this much scaffolding in ancient China - but I am absolutely here for it when Jet Li is climbing all over and kicking people in the face. I guess at heart I'm just a simple woman.

Popular reviews

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  Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy 2016

  ★★★½ Added

  The only film where anyone has anything nice to say about Nancy.

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  Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2018

  Real life Lovecraftian horror - not the fun kind with the tentacles. This film is about an inbred, violent, and evil family who pretended to offer a home to a pregnant mentally handicapped girl. Once she was "part of the family" she was imprisoned, brutalized, raped, tortured and eventually murdered. Two people went to prison for the crime - but as interviews with the family clearly show, the entire thing was masterminded by the matriarch "Sugar Babe" because she wanted…