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Favorite films

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  • Jaws
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    ★★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout

    ★★★★★

  • 28 Weeks Later

    ★★★

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Warfare

2025

★★★★ Watched

Men getting in touch with their feelings. Really, it's a pleasent watch.

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

★★★★★ Rewatched

[Book Review]

The 1994 movie is brilliant, no doubt about it, but I think the message of Andy Dufresne hits even deeper on the page. A timeless story of hope, documented by a man reaching for his own. At just 128 pages, this tight novella stands among King’s best work.

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Talk to Me

2022

★★★★ Watched

I’ll start this by saying I saw Talk to Me at a packed 7:00 pm screening at VJUNIOR (the one with the orange slide) and It was epic!

Australian cinema has always been inconsistent from a quality perspective, but it was at its best in the 1970s-80s during the ‘Ozploitation’ movement. Similarly, Talk to Me is a genre movie. Not an Australian exaggerated cliche. A suspenseful, twisted HORROR movie about a severed hand…(which just so happens to neatly represent aspects of Australian culture)

The Terminator

1984

★★★★★ Liked 2

“Cyborgs don’t feel pain. I do”

I’m a sucker for Kyle’s arc in this film. He grew up in a brutal world. Removing himself from the pain was his only hope to equal his enemy. But it still hurts…daily.

This is a movie about the struggle. Trapped in a dead-end job working as a waitress, Sarah’s life seems to equate to a series of rejections. She’s a very smart woman, a quick decision maker, a natural warrior. She’s forced a…