Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Doctor Sleep 2019

  ★★½ Watched 24 May 2024

  While not without its moments, Mike Flanagan’s adaption of Doctor Sleep makes the fatal mistake of trying to meld together author Stephen King’s vision of the story with Stanley Kubrick’s acclaimed 1980 movie adaption. In other words, it tries to have it’s cake and eat it too.

  As some people know, Stephen King (in)famously hates The Shining movie as an adaption. King’s story is about psychic powers and the struggle between good and evil. Kubrick’s film depicts the cold inevitability…

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  Hellraiser 2022

  ★★½ Watched 14 Nov 2022

  The original Hellraiser from 1987 is one of my personal favourite films. The gnarly gore, amazing practical effects, otherworldly dream-like atmosphere, and of course Doug Bradley absolutely killing it as the BDSM enthusiast demon from hell Pinhead. It has a lot of that 80’s charm that I think would be really hard to replicate in our Marvel Formula™ and “It has to be about something” Prestige Horror™ modern era. So sitting down to watch this 2022 reboot I was slightly pessimistic.…

Popular reviews

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  The Visitor 1979

  ★½ Watched 05 Dec 2021 5

  You know, for a film that has an all-star cast and is about Alien Jesus sending his elderly intergalactic warrior/angel/ to the city of Atlanta - Georgia to duke it out with a little eight-year old Antichrist girl and her pet hawk to prevent Lance Henriksen and the Illuminati from resurrecting Alien Satan, it’s actually pretty darn boring, somehow. 🤨

  It starts out pretty epic and promising, with the guy who directed The Maltese Falcon dressed up as Obi-Wan Kenobi…

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  Godzilla vs. Kong 2021

  ★★★ Watched 07 May 2021 3

  I’m not going to lie. Godzilla vs. Kong is one of the most insane and ridiculously bonkers pieces of media I have ever consumed. I’m in shock honestly at what I just witnessed.
   Even Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which is crazy in it’s own right, pales in comparison to the downright lunacy that transpires here.

  Adam Wingard goes completely ham. Bombarding our poor senses with an overdose of bright 80’s esque neon aesthetic, heavy metal fantasy imagery, synth music,…