Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  The big sequences looked great. Tier A VFX all around. I'm a sucker for good looking water and boats 🙃
  Story was kinda meh. People revealing their true selves all over the place and maybe too much homage to the first?
  Also, Ridley, why do you LOVE a blue blue day for night that's clearly hard sun?
  I guess he doesn't like shooting nights...
  Fun watch, probably my only watch.

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  Pretty fun!
  Monkey. Yes.
  Rock DJ oner was wild. Looked great. Cinematography overall was great. Didn't realize the sisters in All Saints were Canadian.

Popular reviews

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  Trap 2024

  ★★★ Watched 03 Aug 2024

  Toronto never looked so good...as Philly. Not bad. Fun theatre watch. Josh Hartnett is pretty good at being creepy. The shots of the concerts were well done, careful and effective use of lensing to avoid $$VFX I assume. The dead center close-ups looking into the lens are so uncomfortable on the big screen it's great.
  Fun to see my street in a random movie.

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  The Lion King II: Simba's Pride 1998

  ★★ Watched 27 Jun 2024

  Not good. Animation is not as good as the first one, the same jokes are recycled over, Simba is haunted by dreams like a human. I don't want reality in my Lion Kings, I need mystic ghosts and Mandrills!