Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002

  ★ Watched 24 Sep 2023 1

  100 million dollars.

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  Hellgate 1989

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  Funny and very weird. Basically, an 80s comedy that stumbles into an international horror production pretending to be an American, which is usually Italian-flavoured (TROLL 2!), but in this case, it's South African. For every genuine laugh, there are forty head-scratching decisions like a late-in-the-game can-can dance, headless bodies running around, and quips aplenty. It features a grab-bag of carnival haunted house gags, which I'm always a fan of.

  From the director of THE HAPPY HOOKER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, SKATETOWN…

Popular reviews

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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Sep 2022 8

  Many will find this manipulative, heavy handed, misery porn (The Aronofsky hat trick), but I was enthralled by Brendan Fraser's performance every step of the way. I know the play has been mounted many times with different creative teams, but this was a role Fraser was born to play, with his innate likeability, and the reality of his terrible last decade, anchoring his teary eyed performance. I weirdly didn't find it it a chore to watch, because Fraser was so innately likeable, and was surrounded by actors delivering deeply empathetic performances.

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  RRR 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2022 12

  RISE. ROAR. REVOLT.

  You watch RRR and wonder "Why is this film such a spine-tingling blast of excitement while most super-hero blockbusters hit audiences like tepid baths?"

  Maybe it's because they don't feature a musical number where white douchebags are struck down by the power of Indian dance.

  From the absurd premise of "What if two real-life revolutionaries who never crossed path... We're really best friends?", Director SS Rajamouli crafts a towering 3-hour epic that's all about saving a single…