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Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • Before Sunrise
  • Zodiac
  • Lost in Translation

All
  • A Different Man

    ★★★★

  • The Ballad of Wallis Island

    ★★★★

  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★★

  • That Thing You Do!

    ★★★★

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A Different Man

2024

★★★★ Watched

I dunno why but I expected this to be way more mawkish and kind of lecturing, so I was very pleasantly surprised by how odd it was. It's surreal and meta, and very funny in parts. I think it maybe got a bit less interesting as it went on, but only because the first act is so strong. Very original and enjoyable. Always cool when a Marvel actor does something weird and grimy like this.

Also am I the only one who doesn't think Adam Pearson is that great an actor?

The Ballad of Wallis Island

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Loved this. Very very funny and very sweet. Tim Key plays the ballance between irritating, endearing and heartbreaking so well that it's impossible not the be won over. The script is very sharp, the characters are all well written and well portrayed, and crucially, the music is really good. Ticks so many of my boxes.

And on that note, Carey Mulligan is in it, and she plays a folk singer, in case Inside Llewellyn Davis just wasn't enough for you.

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Aquaman

2018

★★ 4

I can't believe I'm seeing 3, 4 and even 5 star reviews for this movie. It feels like it was written and directed by Michael Scott.

While much of the problems with the other terrible DC movies (BvS, Suicide Squad, Justice League) could be *generously* blamed on such things as studio interference, re-edits, multiple directors, forced franchise set up etc, this film doesn't really feel like it has an excuse. It feels like this is totally the movie they wanted…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

2018

★★ 1

Well Hollywood, you did it. You took away all of the spectacle and wonder they once had and you made dinosaurs boring.

The worst part about the first Jurassic World for me was the whole idea of genetically tailoring dinosaurs to follow human comands, act as weapons of war, and generally not be cool dinosaurs. If you share that opinion with me, then buckle up, because Fallen Kingdom takes that idea and absolutely runs with it. Runs it straight into…

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