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Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Halloween

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★

  • Lavantula

  • 28 Weeks Later: 28 Seconds Later

    ★★½

  • Dumb Ways to Die

    ★★★½

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★ Watched

Let me tell you how old I am. I'm old enough to when Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning was titled Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. I loved it, and I didn't even think about the problems that might be lying ahead for those aiming to satisfyingly complete the one grand action epic that could serve as a jewel in the crown of the series. Unfortunately, there were problems. Not only did the film not perform as well…

Lavantula

2015

Simply on here because someone misspelled the title. Go to Lavalantula for the right listing.

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Trainspotting

1996

★★★★★ Liked Added

I don't think it's overstating the fact to say that Trainspotting was one of the defining films of the 1990s. Slowly but surely, almost everyone involved with the film developed a pretty successful film career (with Ewan McGregor, arguably, going on to be the most successful). Danny Boyle confidently delivered on that film-savvy potential that he'd shown with Shallow Grave. The soundtrack was one of the best of the decade, and the marketing and poster design is still being utilised…

Green Room

2015

★★★★½ Liked Watched

AKA that film that features Patrick Stewart as the leader of a bunch of neo-Nazis. AKA "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, who previously gave us the excellent Blue Ruin (and before that gave us Murder Party - which I have yet to watch), Green Room could accurately be described as a snarling beast of a film. It feels raw and visceral throughout, and not just because the main protagonists are of a punk…