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Can’t laughing this hard at a film in a long while. About 15% of my laughs were at the very few actually genuinely funny jokes in this & the other 85% were at how unbelievably shit it is. Completely abandons the source material at random. Had such a great time. Isn’t that what the movies are about?

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Honestly really tired of this whole fantasy nonsense that Netflix Black Mirror has become, but this one is actuslly quite fun. Those last few shots are hilariously terrible though, my god

A return to the sort of ideas that made Black Mirror good. Suffocated by the irony that this is an episode of a Netflix show, where no doubt some people will have actually got ads midway through this episode. Elon Musk needs to ***

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Can’t tell if I’m watching a lot of middle of the road decent films recently or if everything just feels like a 3 star nowadays #deep

The actual mystery is cool but my god this film is going to age so terribly that it’s really hard to get fully on board with

About halfway through I had to pause this and my mum and I were dying laughing at the fact the girl seriously looks exactly like how I did at her age. Resemblance was genuinely uncanny to the point where my mum called it “freaky”. Then by the end we both ended up crying. Lovely film.

So powerful. So hauntingly poignant. Sat crying my eyes out for about 90% of the runtime of episode 4. As someone with three younger siblings and in particular two younger brothers, I have and will continue to stray them away from the all too frequently propagated messaging that radicalises young men against women. We live in a world where social media algorithms are essentially boosting harmful influences into the forefront of everywhere you look & so many of our youth are falling into the trap, and as this series brilliantly makes a point of, parents and authority figures can do more, but I think we all can. Vilify this mindset and paint it as what it is. Owen Cooper is a special talent and Stephen Graham proves once again that he is one of the greatest actors of his generation. Seriously out of superlatives for him, think he’s my favourite working actor today. Will be thinking about this for a long time.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Most anticipated release of the year and it delivered. Pattinson rules and this was really fun from start to finish. Did prefer the first half to the second half but loved it regardless

Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Would have been 10x better as an R rated film I fear.

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 26, 2025.

Finally, the eagerly awaited sequel to Inside Llewyn Davis

Nicholas Hoult is a sensational actor.

Merry Christmas everyone even Wallace you useless sack of shite. Feathers McGraw nutty aura.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

That’s too much, man

Thought the Oscar nods for Ariana Grande were just stan work, but fairs man. She might actually have a shot at it

Mr Maddens is stronger than me if I were him I would have killed Mr Poppy with a hammer

Retreads the original in places but had a lot of fun. Paul Mescal is great but Denzel Washington just continues to steal the screen like no other. GOAT.

“He’ll bring them death. And they will love him for it.”

Think this is just pretty unquestionably a modern classic. Nice to see it for the first time on the big screen, getting an experience that feels like it would have changed lives for those who saw it in 2000. There’s definitely elements I don’t love about it; wasn’t a huge fan of the overused slow-mo sequences & the slightly forced romance, but this is just completely spectacular in almost every way otherwise. Crowe & Phoenix with career-defining performances. Ridley Scott, you a genius. Don’t make me choose between this and Alien.

Right then

They found my boy Luca Guadagnino guilty on all counts of making the best film of all time 💔

In a just world, Josh Hartnett gets an Oscar nomination for this. Elevates the film to a level that no one else could.

Watched on Friday September 27, 2024.

Watched on Friday September 27, 2024.

Almost everything that happens here is nigh on a shot by shot remake of different popular thrillers of the last 10 years. Nevertheless, pretty tense and well directed, particularly for a debut. Really not sure about that ending though.

Wouldn’t have guessed that in September a Netflix original would be in my top 5 films of the year but here we go. Aaron Pierre, wow

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Honey I shrunk the Beetlejuice

“I’ll remind you of everything”

Isn’t life just crazy?

“Never let the two lives touch”

Fun! Like one long Hitman mission story. Certainly ridiculous, definitely had to suspend my disbelief at times but Josh Hartnett is incredible so that’s easier to stomach. Not my favourite film of the year but I’m glad M Night gets to make cool shit like this and his daughter’s music career at the same time, wholesome.

Watched on Thursday August 29, 2024.

This review may contain spoilers.

Torn by this. On the one hand it’s brilliantly made with great performances all-round and much of what it’s trying to say is obviously extremely poignant and done well. I do however have a problem with how that messaging is delivered at times and how much, particularly towards the end, this teeters towards an attempt to garner sympathy towards the police. Seriously, the entirely manufactured “racist cop gets owned by the other good white cops!!” thing near the end here is painfully cringeworthy and uncomfortable to watch; it’s in direct contradiction to almost everything that comes before it. Thought what followed in the ending montage and the parallels drawn there were fantastic though, so there’s that

Think every single log of this until the end of time will just be me saying some variation of “this is the best film ever made.” 

It really is though.

Incredibly strange music choices but great stuff otherwise. Steve Carell is very good here but he errs into Michael Scott territory in line delivery occasionally and Holly Flax being his ex-wife wasn’t helping that case. Knew it already but Chalamet is just so good, this is one of his best.

Watched on Monday August 26, 2024.

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Not going to write an essay on this because my opinion on this probably means next to nothing - my only experience with the Alien franchise was me finishing the first one 20 minutes before this started in the cinema lobby. People that love Alien, that grew up with Alien, are definitely more worth listening to - and many of those aren’t liking this very much. But aside from that tremendous misstep, the likes of which I have no idea what they were thinking, this is actually pretty great. Really shaky first half hour but picks up with some brilliant set-pieces, guided by masterful performances from Cailee Spaeny (as usual, she’s one of the best actresses working right now) and David Jonsson. Maybe I’d dislike this more if I’d seen the others, but for now, I had a great time with it

Side note: stay off your fucking phone in the cinema, or don’t go. Seriously. It’s not that difficult.

Genius.

Honestly better than I expected. Will be my mum’s favourite film of the year.

I do think this is about as close to making a perfect film as humanity has ever come.

Watched on Thursday August 8, 2024.

Both pointless AND morally reprehensible. Impressive.

• Mickey 17
• A Minecraft Movie

1. Oppenheimer
2. The Holdovers
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Poor Things
5. Past Lives
6. John Wick: Chapter 4
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. The Iron Claw
9. Scrapper
10. May December

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• A Complete Unknown
• Mickey 17

1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Anora
4. Memoir of a Snail
5. Hit Man
6. Juror #2
7. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
8. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
9. Gladiator II
10. Rebel Ridge

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• Ferrari
• Poor Things
• Dune: Part Two
• Monkey Man
• Challengers
• The Fall Guy
• IF
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Inside Out 2
• Deadpool & Wolverine

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• Gladiator
• The Substance

1. Rebel Ridge
2. C'mon C'mon
3. Beetlejuice
4. Wolfs
5. Blink Twice

1. Alien
2. Signs
3. Alien: Romulus
4. Beautiful Boy
5. Trap
6. BlacKkKlansman
7. It Ends with Us
8. Theater Camp
9. Longlegs
10. Old School

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1. Hot Fuzz
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Baby Driver
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5. The World's End
6. Last Night in Soho

1. Children of Men
2. The Witch
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
5. A Quiet Place: Day One
6. Greenland
7. Deadpool & Wolverine

1. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2. Hit Man
3. Inside Out
4. Inside Out 2

1. Challengers
2. The Sixth Sense
3. The Fall Guy
4. IF
5. Boy Kills World
6. Civil War
7. The Idea of You

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Spider-Man
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Spider-Man: Homecoming
6. Spider-Man: No Way Home
7. Spider-Man 3
8. Spider-Man: Far From Home
9. The Amazing Spider-Man
10. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

1. Oppenheimer
2. Challengers
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. Babylon
6. The Holdovers
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Poor Things
9. Past Lives
10. John Wick: Chapter 4

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1. Three Thousand Years of Longing
2. Monkey Man
3. Baby Reindeer
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Scoop
6. Bones and All
7. Grimsby

1. After Hours
2. This Is England
3. Oldboy
4. Poor Things
5. A Silent Voice: The Movie
6. Ferrari
7. The Curse
8. Everybody Wants Some!!
9. His House
10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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1. This Is England '90
2. This Is England '86
3. The Iron Claw
4. This Is England '88
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Shithouse
7. Punch-Drunk Love
8. One Day
9. All of Us Strangers
10. Gone Baby Gone

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1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Perfect Blue
4. Your Name.
5. At Eternity's Gate
6. Titane
7. Insomnia
8. Chungking Express
9. Friday
10. Dead Man's Shoes

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• John Wick: Chapter 4
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Oppenheimer

  x2 

• Barbie
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Wonka

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Babylon
3. Nope
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
6. Cha Cha Real Smooth
7. The Menu
8. Top Gun: Maverick
9. The Batman
10. Aftersun

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