Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Io Capitano 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Aug 2024

  Not for the faint hearted or hard hearted, a very real and painful depiction of what hopes and dreams migrants have in looking for a better life for themselves and their families in Europe. This movie holds no punches and is hard to watch at times, but don't look away. Within this story both the humanity and inhumanity of man (and I mean man, not woman) are revealed, we need to do more to look after each other

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  Sleeping Dogs 2024

  ★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2024

  Russel Crowe is excellent at times in this movie and elevates considerably, the supporting cast are a little less convincing. Great premise of the aging cop who is in the early stages Alzheimer's and is asked to look at one of his old murder cases by a death row inmate, not a unique idea to use memory loss ( see Memento) to misdirect and confuse the viewer. I guessed the twist, but I enjoyed this none the less for thanks to Mr Crowe

Popular reviews

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  Bullet Train 2022

  ★ Watched 28 May 2024 1

  A great mish-mash of Hollywood and East Asian arts movies, hyper violent and comical. A movie as high speed as the bullet train it's set on, as preposterous as it is imaginative. Highly recommend if you love the movies

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  In the Land of Saints and Sinners 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jul 2024 2

  Liam Neeson is watchable in most things and he is highly watchable in this film set in Ireland/N Ireland in 1974 in the depths of the Troubles. Though this is the backdrop, it isn't as such the focus of the plot. Though it is about some very bad people who you certainly wouldn't want as company. Ireland is a country of contrasts and contradictions; a land of tremendously warm humorous and welcoming people, but it has a dark sinister and…