Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Jurassic Park 1993

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  "Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend"

  I've rambled 99 times on here, so let's make the 100th ramble a special one. My favourite film.

  The exemplary ensemble cast for Jurassic Park provides faces to put to what might well be the closest thing to a masterpiece Hollywood has ever produced. Through thick and thin, and every flaw and feature, Jurassic Park released in 1993 to become the quintessential cinema experience. That aforementioned cast, the thought-provoking story by…

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  Fist Fight 2017

  ★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  "Get your Rush Hour asses to class!"

  Charlie Day and Ice Cube clash as two school teachers who get into an altercation after one unintentionally gets the other fired. This is the full extent of the premise of a movie that isn't particularly interested in saying or doing much of anything beyond it's simplest impulses. Billed as a comedy, the humour plays out in quite simple fashion as well.

  The best laughs (or smirks) come from Ice Cube, who lifts…

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Dark Knight 2008

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  "Let's put a smile on that face"

  Nolan's Batman trilogy suffers from the same infliction from beginning to end, and it's an infliction that derives from the same attributes that makes it unique and successful. It takes itself so seriously. From start to finish this is a trilogy that plays things straight, and it's what allows these films to deliver a depiction of the caped crusader that is poignant, existential, and deep. At the same time though, it's what holds…