Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Suicide Squad 2016

  ★★ Watched 17 Jul 2017

  I love a lofty masterpiece of cinema, but equally I can really enjoy a truly awful film, if only for comedy value. A mediocre film however, is the hardest to endure. Suicide Squad was firmly on that pile.

  It was soulless, disjointed and just plain boring. I couldn't care less about any of the characters, even if I could remember who they were and what they did.

  The worst part of the film was the soundtrack. Overpowering, obtrusive and annoyingly…

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  Batman & Robin 1997

  ★★½ Watched 16 Jul 2017

  This is very much the silly filling in the Batman sandwich. Above it, the goth Burton movies and below, the serious Nolan Dark Knights. 

  It is an infamous whipping boy for Batman fans for years, if 'Forever' started the character's decline, this finished it, with aplomb and Batnipples.

  True, it isn't a good film, in any way really. However, it's camp, silly, bright coloured and if you switch your brain completely off and think of it as a continuation of the Batman '66 TV show, there is fun to be had. It cheered me up and I never stopped laughing.

Popular reviews

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  King of California 2007

  ★★★★ Added

  I was both looking forward to, and at the same time, dreading watching this. It looked interesting, but I have been stung so many times with ‘kooky’ indie films with ‘wacky’ characters. I warned it: If Zooey Deschanel turned up playing The Smiths I would scream.

  I needn’t have worried. I soon shed all resistance and quickly got behind Charlie and Miranda’s seemingly doomed treasure hunt. The two leads worked really well with Douglas once again taking command of the…

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  Hackers 1995

  ★★★★ Added

  This is a movie I like to check in with every year or so to see how much more it has aged. Answer: worse every time. It's cheesy, preposterous, silly and occasionally annoying, but I still have a huge soft spot for it and I enjoy it every time.

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