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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  I, Daniel Blake 2016

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025 1

  "I, Daniel Blake, demand my appeal date before I starve."

  The fact a film exists solely to condemn the UK state benefits system, is a commentary on the state of that system. I, Daniel Blake is a thorough, raw, and potentially triggering moment of cinema in which director Ken Loach strips everything back in his depiction of the lived experiences of the UK's poorest. The film came out in 2016 at the height of the Conservative governments punitive reforms of…