Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Yakuza: Like a Dragon 2007

  ★★★ Watched 03 Aug 2024

  Pretty decent time if you've played the Yakuza game the film is based on, can't imagine it's a particularly coherent experience otherwise since so much hinges on that knowledge. Was a decent 2hr experience, though. Even if I found that weird sub-plot with the kleptomaniac couple unbearable at times.

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  The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jul 2024

  As Luigi said, "It is cinema."

Popular reviews

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  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Sep 2023 1

  "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

  What a beautiful film. This is my first time watching in 10 years, and my first time with the Extended Edition, and it really hasn't aged a day.

  Out of all of the movies, Fellowship of the Ring is the one that I've always looked fondly on the most, the comforting scenes of the shire really help to contrast the later scenes in…

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  Halloween 1978

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Sep 2022 1

  "Death has come to your little town, Sheriff. Now you can either ignore it, or you can help me to stop it. "

  Can definitely see why this is a classic. The main theme composed by John Carpenter immediately sets a tone of unease, Michael Myers's heavy usage of stalking his prey is unsettling, and his almost perverse pleasure in the stalking is enough to disgust.

  The low-budget, though obvious at times, works in the films favour at points, Michael's…