Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Bong Joon Ho follows up his masterpiece Parasite with this quirky, funny sci fi satire that doesnt pack as much of a punch as its premise. Robert Pattinson is great in it, along with Toni Collete and Mark Ruffalo who play political doofus’ who are quite on the nose for our times. Recommended if you enjoy high concept sci fi.

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  One of the more cohesive entries to the MCU we’ve got in a while. Great set pieces. Mackie and Ford don’t pull their punches. It’s not going to top anyone’s MCU list but it’s a solid, mid level, grounded actioner that felt like it started to gain some much needed momentum towards an Avengers payoff that’s coming very soon.

Popular reviews

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  Shutter Island 2010

  ★★★★ Rewatched 13 Apr 2014 1

  It's very hard to portray mental illness in film. Many times it can come off hokey and over the top. Scorsese and DiCaprio do a fine job bringing it to the forefront with this ominous, dark psychological mystery.

  Beautifully shot, edited and scored. This is common of Scorsese to bring all his expertise to the set and craft an excellent film. For me, it's not one of his strongest efforts, but by no means does that mean it's not a…

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  Gone Girl 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Oct 2014

  David Fincher has crafted a suspenseful masterpiece that is emotionally provocative and extremely layered with dynamic characters and their even more extreme intentions and motivations. Upon first watch I noticed a load of commentary on what a marriage is in this day and age and also the effect the media has on situations such as murders and kidnappings. It's hard to talk in length about the plot without spoiling things. It's a complicated story that hinges on Ben Affleck's and…