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Favorite films

  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Back to the Future

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  • Maniac Cop

    ★★

  • 28 Weeks Later

    ★★★½

  • The Heat

    ★★★½

  • Dredd

    ★★★★

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Tenet

2020

★★★★ Liked 2

Tenet is the latest mind-boggling blockbuster from Christopher Nolan. Just like Inception and Interstellar before it, Nolan attempts to outdo anything that has come previously and, in of complexity, he certainly succeeds!

Known only as The Protagonist, John David Warrington’s character is thrust into a time-bending world of espionage where he must save the world from a threat more deadly than a nuclear war.

The story is very complex and it takes a lot of exposition to explain the…

Red Dwarf: The Promised Land

2020

★★★★ Liked Watched

‪Even though Red Dwarf has been on TV since 1988, I didn’t become a fan until 11 years later after Series VIII was broadcast in 1999. My first memory of the show was hearing my friends talking about the new Series VIII during break times at high school. My friend Sarah offered to loan me her Red Dwarf VHS tapes and I watched one a day until I was fully caught up.‬

‪I instantly became a fan! However, this was…

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The Gorge

2025

★★½ Watched

This movie feels very much like a generic video game adaptation, just without the satisfaction of knowing there’s a far superior video game available to play instead.

Murder by Death

1976

★★★½ Liked Watched

When I learned of Dame Maggie Smith’s ing today, I wanted to celebrate her career by watching one of her movies that I’d never seen before. When I settled on Murder by Death, I certainly wasn’t expecting *that* Peter Sellers performance. Wow!

Ignoring all the racism, homophobia and misogyny, there are actually some fun moments in this film and I found myself chuckling along (sometimes uncomfortably). It certainly is a product of its time, and there are better spoofs of…

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Twister

1996

★★★½ Liked 13

Watched in 4D - I turned on the electric fan on the highest setting. Intense!

Nativity!

2009

★★★ Liked 16

Don't get me wrong, as a primary school teacher who has regularly been responsible for the school nativity, I quite like this film. However, I do have my reservations about Mr Maddens' competency as a teacher.

10 reasons why Mr Maddens is a terrible teacher:

1) Regularly putting children down and telling them that they are useless.

2) Relies too heavily on negative behaviour strategies, such as sending children to detention.

3) Divulging his personal life to the children, such…