Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Far and Away 1992

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  This isn’t a great movie, it’s not even a good movie, but sometimes you just need to watch a couple of incredibly unprepared people hornilly stumble their way across a grand endeavor full of pratfalls and mishaps that takes them all the way from somewhere in Ireland to a patch of dirt in eventual Oklahoma. I could be talking about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as actors flung together by a movie or about the characters they play. Works either…

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  Hail, Caesar! 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  Hail, Caesar! is all-around fantastic from one end to the other with Channing Tatum doing his very best Gene Kelly impersonation right in the middle with a song and dance number about a sailor’s life at sea. That alone would be enough to recommend it, but then we have Alden Ehrenreich being so engaging and charming* while holding his comedic own opposite Ralph Fiennes in a sequence about pronunciation that goes on forever and you wish it was longer, Scarlett…

Popular reviews

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  I Know Where I'm Going! 1945

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  You ever watch a movie where every frame felt like a place where you could live forever and never worry again for the rest of your life?

  The fact is, they just don’t make Roger Liveseys anymore, and they don’t cast Wendy Hillers anymore, and the world would be a finer place if they did either or both of these things. I just kept smiling throughout the entire ninety-two minute run-time, not counting the parts when the sincerity was just so high that I almost cried.

  There’s just something astonishingly Good about I Know Where I’m Going.

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Apr 2024

  I was all prepared to come out of this movie saying “The Challengers score bangs, it’s a shame about the movie itself,” but all in all, that wasn’t bad!

  Update:
  Having given myself some time to think about Challengers, I need to amend this review to welcome Challengers to the growing league of grown-ass movies. 

  Every other review talks about this as a love triangle movie, but triangle isn’t the right shape at all. This is a movie about a…