Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Knight's Tale 2001

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  The look on a friend's face when I explained that Geoffrey Chaucer is a major character in this batshit movie...priceless.

  Is it good? Maybe not. Is it fun? Absolutely. Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk are both hilarious. The fact that it's over 2 hours is...weird and unnecessary - could've cut at least 30 minutes of fat out of this. I wish they'd leaned even harder into the jukebox anachronistic songs thing - we could've had a We Will Rock You moment at every tourney and I would've been happy. But it's undeniably unique and a little weird and mostly very successful.

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  Fast Color 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  Makes one of the best uses of a small CGI budget I've ever seen. The effects are relatively few and far between, but I gasped every time at how beautiful they are.

  Maybe this was too meditative and internal for mainstream audiences, or maybe it just got completely buried in the catalogues of streaming services...but this is such a special movie, and it's a shame that practically no one has seen it. It's deconstructing the superhero myth at the same…

Popular reviews

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  Twelve Monkeys 1995

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Good hard sci-fi that still manages to be funny and keep moving. Brad Pitt's performance is really great - he manages to be believably manic instead of just a caricature.

  It's bizarre how many movies are interested in militant animal rights activists in the 1990s.

  But yeah, this is fun. Love a time travel plot, love a post-plague dystopia, so this fits the bill nicely. Plus, La Jetée is great, so I think it's great that the story reaches a…

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  X-Men: First Class 2011

  ★★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2025

  Wow, talk about a superhero movie with so much more edge, interest, and style than the modern Marvel drivel.

  Because our main characters are morally ambiguous and interesting, it means Kevin Bacon's villain doesn't really pop - whenever he was on screen I just wanted him to go away and get back to our favorite gay couple.

  There's some heavy-handedness in the anti-semitic stuff that's a little cheesy (thinking of menorahs is what makes Magneto powerful!?), but mostly, this handles…