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Favorite films

  • Star Wars
  • The Social Network
  • Back to the Future
  • Toy Story

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  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★½

  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★★★

  • Sinners

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★½ Watched

Starting to think that Wes Anderson Wes-Anderson’d himself too hard on The Grand Budapest Hotel & is struggling to replicate the charm of that film with a procession of films that are trying too hard

Presence

2024

★★ Watched

The main thing this film has going for it is that it’s painlessly short. 

Beyond that, this film feels very much like its gimmick was devised of & then they attempted to reverse engineer a film to fit.

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Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America

2007

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

As an atheist, Louis Theroux is my god.

Aliens

1986

★★★★½ Liked Watched

What I love most is that James Cameron made a film that is not only faithful to Ridley Scott's masterpiece but, a film in its own right. He also made the film his own, diverging from the original just enough to remain recognisable but, not too far to end up making it feel out of place within the Alien mythos.

The film is different enough from its predecessor to warrant its existence, and therefore, doesn't feel dragged back by the…