Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Training Day 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  Another first time watch sadly. Denzel Washington take a bow and another Oscar for this one. 

  Alonzo Harris up there with the nastiest baddies there is but I also can’t help but cheer for him. “King Kong ain’t got nothing on me”

  And he’s completely right.

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  The Third Man 1949

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  Very behind on my Orson Welles filmography. 

  A cracker of a movie to end a Saturday with. A mystery for the age with great cinematography that sets the tone and mood so well, stunning. The black and white with smoke and silhouettes, this is what film noir is all about. 

  Orson Welles is just one of those actors that loves the screen and when he’s on it, it’s hard to focus on anyone else. The villainous looks and quips, not…

Popular reviews

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  Phantom Thread 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2018

  Movies like Phantom Thread only come around so often but that's because Paul Thomas Anderson only makes a movie every so often.

  This movie hits and when it hits, it hits hard. It starts slow and you need to have the patience to let it pull you in. Set in the 1950's fashion industry, we are shown the House of Woodcock, led by the mastermind dressmaker, Reynolds Woodcock. A smart, by the book man who lives by his own set…

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  Man of Steel 2013

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2021

  Starting my countdown to Zack Snyder’s Justice League this Thursday by revisiting some DC movies from the Snyderverse. 

  I haven’t seen Man of Steel since 2016 when BvS came out. I honestly forgot how much I love this movie. 

  Superman had been in a bit of a slump since the Christoper Reeve movies and Superman Returns was not very good. Zack Snyder came along with some stylish direction and input from Christopher Nolan and laid down a marker for how…