Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Kraven the Hunter 2024

  ★★½ Rewatched 14 Mar 2025

  I haven’t seen Lawrence of Arabia but I have seen Kraven the Hunter twice.

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  Mamma Mia! 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Worth seeing with a crowd purely for the collective experience of processing Pierce Brosnan’s performance. Not a single choice made by him is the right one, it makes everything so much better.

  The colour grading in this is gorgeous. It feels like a dream, though I’m sure the lack of narrative cohesion attributes to that also.

  Honestly, the second one is so much better. It’s actually a movie. Takes the concept of Mamma Mia on stage and adapts it for the…

Popular reviews

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  Little Black Book 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2020 1

  One of the most absurd studio rom-coms ever made. That last half hour? Wild!!!!

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  Hate to Love: Nickelback 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Sep 2023

  I do think I slightly love to hate Nickelback. Chad has a great voice and they have some bangers, but overall they are more right place/right time than incredible artists. The documentary struggles with how to reconcile that, painting them as mythic heroes on par with The Beatles, which is not true.

  The members of the band seem delightful, other than Chad - who is a bit strange to me. He didn’t speak that much here, and that in itself…