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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Amélie
  • Trainspotting

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  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★

  • Bird on a Wire

    ★★★

  • Independence Day

    ★★★★

  • Sister Act

    ★★★★

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  • Shrek 2

    Shrek 2 2004

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Apr 2021 8

    Not only one of the greatest sequels ever but also one of my all-time favourites. I once watched it a solid four times in a row when I was having a bad day (don’t think I’ve even watched a movie twice in a row before) and was surprised Netflix didn’t send me a welfare email. So other than (admittedly) lots and lots of nostalgia, what makes it so great? 

    Well, it manages to accomplish what so many sequels fail at.…

  • King Kong

    King Kong 2005

    ★★★½ Rewatched 19 Nov 2020 4

    Okay, King Kong has absolutely no business being over 3 hours long, but it’s still a fun ride with well-cast characters and surprisingly gory scenes that I’ve come back to many times. Without the massively overstuffed first act before the boat departs it would’ve been miles better.

    We aren’t let into Ann Darrow’s character much as she spends the majority of her time on the island screaming her head off, but in her quieter moments Naomi Watts shows a lot…

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  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025

    ★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

    Not sure what the 5 second Isla Fisher cameo was about, leftover cut content?

    This wasn’t a bad send off to the series at all and better than the last offering, which was more of the same but worse, though I’m left feeling bittersweet about the Alien 3 treatment of two of the characters. Bridget is now in her 50s and struggling with motherhood, and it’s interesting to see this still familiar character going through heavier struggles. Hugh Grant is…

  • Bird on a Wire

    Bird on a Wire 1990

    ★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025

    Battle of the Romcoms

    A title less fitting than Mission: Impossible? I don’t know, Google’s usually useless AI feature gives a decent enough explanation, but a melancholy Leonard Cohen song that feels longer than the film itself still seems a strange inspiration for a Mel Gibson-Goldie Hawn on-the-run action comedy.

    This is one of my parents’ favourites and it was decent enough - the comedy leans heavily on slapstick and goofy crudeness, and while it’s obvious at times that Goldie’s…

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  • The Crush

    The Crush 1993

    ★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2022 3

    "I tell you, if you were 10 years older..." 🤮🤮🤮

    It’s weird, because that line and Nick’s general creepiness early on is sort of left by the wayside in place of Adrian being portrayed as the only one in the wrong. Though I’m less surprised having found out that the film was based on a true experience by the director who was actually sued by the real girl’s parents during production, forcing any lines with her name being spoken to…

  • My Sister's Keeper

    My Sister's Keeper 2009

    ★★★ Watched 09 Dec 2021 2

    This movie feels a bit like Matilda if the parents were portrayed sympathetically. I wish it had gone harder on the whole idea of them planning a test tube baby to keep their older daughter alive, as the crux of the story centres around them trying to force her to give up a kidney and the younger daughter getting a lawyer (Alec Baldwin) on the case. Instead, things take a rather schmaltzy turn (very different to the book) which disappointingly…

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Battle of the Romcoms/Chick Flicks 29 films

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  • Black Mirror: The Entire History of You
  • Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits
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  • Black Mirror: Be Right Back

Black Mirror Ranked 7 films

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  • The King of Comedy
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