Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dumb Money 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Sep 2023

  Nice of them to make a movie out of my brother in law losing £8,000 cause he put his money into Game Stop stocks and held without selling for months.

  Feels bizarre that this is a movie when the story finished like not even 2 years ago. Talk about fast tracking something into production. But it's an entertaining film and Craig Gillesipe proves once more that he's one of the most versatile, profitable directors working today.

  Bet this will bomb though, I'm honestly surprised it was a theatrical release, it feels more like an Apple TV+ Original.

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Sep 2023

  Rewatched this yesterday and I must say it's a much, much better film when you don't have to constantly move to see past a guys fat head and when you're not a trillion degrees warm.

  Absolutely adored this on a second watch, really quiet and meditative but so powerful and poignant in its message. I can see it getting completely goose egged at the Oscars cause of how subtle it is.

  Just please, give me original screenplay and I'll be happy.

Popular reviews

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  The Social Dilemma 2020

  ★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2020

  There’s a really interesting documentary intertwined with a truly god awful Lifetime style dramatisation that seriously ruins the whole film. It’s literally wince worthy and hard to sit through. All it does is pad the runtime. I feel like they could’ve fit this into a compact 40 minute short and it would’ve been really good, cause the core concept is incredibly interesting and topical, but the presentation is clunky to say the least.

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  Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman 2021

  ★ Watched 21 Jan 2022

  Tone deaf exploitation film by a talentless, tasteless hack of a director. Between this and The Haunting of Sharon Tate, Daniel Farrands proves himself to be a borderline incompetent director who doesn’t give a crap about respecting true crime stories. 

  It’s also got to have some of the worst cinematography I’ve ever seen. Farrands clearly has a very ‘point and shoot’ approach to filmmaking cause there’s obviously zero thought put into the framing and composition of these shots. They all…