jj ⚜️ tridents up

I'm probably the worst Warhammer player of all time, but I'm sticking with it anyway. Back during lockdown I got really bored as I think most of us did - being inside basically all day and not going outside meant that I ended up spending a lot of my time watching movies / tv shows or j...

personal thing on the substack today - writing about warhammer and how i'm really bad at it. go have a read!! #warhammer40k

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Hamnet review: Chloé Zhao's finest work yet ★★★★★ Chloé Zhao has to me always been an incredible director and I’ve loved all of her work that I’ve seen so far - while that’s limited to just Nomadland and Eternals (need to catch up on The Rider ...

watched hamnet.

some thoughts: open.substack.com/pub/clearest...

full list as a tl:dr

1. One Battle After Another
2. I'm Still Here
3. Sentimental Value
4. We Live In Time
5. Weapons
6. Nosferatu
7. Sinners
8. The Long Walk
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. Marty Supreme

My favourites of 2025: Year Wrap Up 2025 has been a pretty good year for me in terms of getting back into watching movies & reading books - 2024 was a rough one with managing university and part-time jobs alongside it so it was really n...

new post on the substack: my top 10 movies of 2025:

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Avatar: fire and ash ★★★⯨ For the first time ever, there have been two AVATAR films released within the same decade - with 2025’s FIRE AND ASH finally releasing on Thursday.

AVATAR FIRE AND ASH REVIEW

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What i watched in november: a recap of the highlights Back in October I did a wrap up of my favourite things I watched that month, so I thought I’d turn it into an ongoing series where I talk about a few of my favourite watches over the past month.

new article.

what i watched in november: a recap of the highlights

go read ✌️
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I hate cooking but also i want to find joy in it I don’t know what it specifically is about cooking that means I’m really not a fan of it.

new article ✌️
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Mission: impossible - fallout (2018) ★★★★★ The MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies during the Christopher McQuarrie era have become almost more than classic secret agent / action / thriller movies - they’ve become these feats of blockbuster filmm...

saw it in cinemas last night.
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Roofman (a review) ★★★★☆ ROOFMAN is the latest film from THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES director Derek Cianfrance and follows the true story of Jeffery Manchester (played by Channing Tatum), a veteran who has fallen on hard...

Roofman (a review)
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division champs baby. been crying tears of joy for the past couple hours

its so nice like already knowing the mariners have a playoff spot. time to go for the division tonight.

seattle mariners made the post season. it's beautiful

cal hit 57. greatest catching season of all time

fuck off

i know like 3.5 / 5 and 7 / 10 are effectively the same rating but at the same time giving something a 3.5 feels like it's worse? can't explain that

big up cineworld unlimited

off to see sinners 🫡🫡

YEAH

from the universe of the office as a subtitle for this just seems like its a 30 rock bit

Is Capesh*t Back? I'm optimistic about the future of comic book movies.

i wrote a thing!

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letterboxd screenshot of favourite films + last four watched. favourite films are posters for (left to right) The worst person in the world (joachim trier, 2022) Stand by me (rob reiner, 1989) The outrun (nora fingscheidt, 2024) Field of dreams (phil alden robinson, 1989) last four watched thunderbolts* (jake schreier, 2025) heart eyes (josh rueben, 2025) field of dreams (phil alden robinson, 1989) cleaner (martin campbell, 2024)

new top 4
& also the #LastFourWatched from this week

god damn it marvel is back

seeing thunderbolts* tonight. might be the first time in like 4 years i've actually been excited for a marvel movie

hell yeah

NINE SERIES IN A ROW BABY MARINERS NEVER IN DOUBT

this is one of the opinions ever

oh hell yeah new star wars run maybe this is the time i get back into the comics

oh its so peak

✨chaos ball ✨

i really need to go see it