Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  The longest 90 minute film I’ve seen.

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  All of Us Strangers 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2024

  Oh boy does this become a little flea in your mind. I enjoyed it in the cinema but ever since, it’s been there ticking away in my brain. Thinking and re-contextualising what scenes and moments meant or didn’t mean.

  There’s so much in this film that anybody of any sexuality can relate to. For most people, the scenes that really land will be the scenes about parental relationships and loss. Conversations and life milestones that can never be shared.

  But…

Popular reviews

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  Glass 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2019

  Yeah......definitely the worst of the trilogy. But James McAvoy is awesome again, chewing up the scenery and clearly having the time of his life.

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  Doctor Strange 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2016

  A more appropriate title may have been "LSD: The Movie" and I mean that in the most positive way possible. Doctor Strange continues Marvels long run of good but not great movies, successfully carving out it's own identity in the crowded superhero market.

  The only downside is that Doctor Strange suffers the same fate as most origin stories in that the villain is weak, even when played by the great Mads Mikkelsen. Oh and the whole Tilda Swinton yellow face thing....