Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Elemental 2023

  ★★★ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  Very very pretty - first movie I've seen that really makes me feel like I need a new TV - but it's just OK. Nothing amazing.

  My daughter really enjoyed it and managed to watch it all in one go. She struggles to sit and watch long movies so it was quite special for us to sit and watch one whole movie together, especially one I hadn't already seen a bunch of times.

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  M3GAN 2022

  ★★★ Watched 19 Sep 2023

  A great movie to kick off halloween 2023 with. It's fun, enjoys its tropes and horror moments, but doesn't go too deep in any direction. M3gan knows what it is and cracks on with it.

Popular reviews

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  Prometheus 2012

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Jul 2023

  I'm very happy to join the "Prometheus is good actually" club. Watching it again in line with all the previous movies, the Alien series was done for in 3 and 4 was barely OK. This was the only way to do something genuinely interesting with the lore and I really liked that it wasn't afraid to change things up.

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  Alien: Covenant 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Jul 2023

  Ooh so this one is interesting!

  I have, in many of my reviews, complained that films had a lot of good ideas, good individual bits, but couldn't pull them together into a coherent whole. This movie is the other way around: I didn't love the minute to minute scenes. I thought that the action was rather poor, the aliens never quite looked right, and the characters didn't quite grab me. I think that the Alien franchise is at its best…