Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

  ★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2025

  Schmaltzy family-friendly fun. Four stars for being obviously better than 2000 D&D film. Minus half a star for Justice Smith being in it, and therefore reminding me of I Saw the TV Glow, which is art, something against which this film cannot compare. Minus half a star because Chris Pine would save this city against Beckoning Death, but not Palestinians. Innocent people should be saved regardless of their place of birth, Chris. Plus one star because I'm being unfair, but then minus another star because it's my review and I can do what I want.

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  Pig 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2025

  This is a film about questioning human society and our role in it.

Popular reviews

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  I'm going to give this film very high praise after watching it once. To me, this film is up there with Lynch's Eraserhead (1977), one of my favourite films of all time, but one that is not easy for me to watch.

  Eraserhead is a very visual experience that isn't about making obvious narrative sense. It takes as its subject of horror a theme that I don't think is common: becoming a responsible adult in a world that makes no…

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2024 1

  An actually fantastic adaptation of (around half of) the first book in the Dune series. It's not exactly the same as the book, although that's the point of an adaptation, so it's not a problem. 'Faithful', 'representative', 'enjoyable'... none of these depend wholly on the film being somehow 'the same as' the book. Your experience of the book depends on your imagination. Your preferences regarding pacing are subjective and depend on how your own memory has streamlined the events of…