Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Last Train to Christmas 2021

  ★★ Watched 01 Dec 2023

  When successful 80s nightclub manager Tony Towers (Michael Sheen) boards a train home for Christmas with his fiancé Sue (Nathalie Emmanuel), his brother Roger (Cary Elwes) and his sister-in-law Paula (Katherine Kelly), Tony finds that each train carriage is a different year and stage of his life and anything he says or does directly impacts how his life, and the people he cares about lives, could turn out. Will he manage to make things better or only make things worse…

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  Last Holiday 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2023

  After she learns she has a terminal illness and only three weeks to live, the usually shy Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) withdraws her life savings and jets off to Prague to stay at the posh hotel of her dreams where one of her favourite chefs, Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu) resides.

  Last Holiday is one of those Christmasy films that completely passed me by for years and it was seeing to on peoples “favourite Christmas films” lists that made me want…

Popular reviews

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  Lapwing 2021

  ★★ Watched 21 Nov 2021

  I'm tired of watching films where women are raped and mistreated and the men are all terrible and even if there's a moment where the woman stands up for herself or gets revenge it feels too hollow after all the pain she's gone though before it.

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  Nativity! 2009

  ★ Watched 06 Dec 2020

  I went into this thinking I wouldn't enjoy it but I did not expect how much I wanted to strangle Mr Poppy.