Colin Reviews

Favorite films

  • The Godfather
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Parasite
  • Whiplash

All
  • John Wick

    ★★★½

  • Inception

    ★★★★

  • The Handmaiden

    ★★★★★

  • Civil War

    ★★★★

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John Wick

2014

★★★½ Watched

▼ Review in English and French ▼

🇬🇧 English

John Wick could have been just another action flick: guns, vengeance, stylish violence. And on the surface, it is all that. But what makes it stand out, what gives it weight, is its grief. Behind the bullets and the neon, it’s a story of a man broken not by death, but by what comes after: the silence, the absence, the aching routine of survival.

We meet John not as a…

Inception

2010

★★★★ Liked Watched

▼ Review in English and French ▼

🇬🇧 English

Inception is a film that plays with your mind, but also with your heart, if you let it. At first, it looks like a stylish, clever thriller about dreams inside dreams, with a man named Cobb at the center. But under all the action and rules, there’s something deeper. A story about memory, guilt, time, and the way we create meaning from the chaos inside us. It’s not just science…

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The Handmaiden

2016

★★★★★ Liked 2

▼ Review in English and French ▼

🇬🇧 English

The Handmaiden isn’t just beautiful; it’s hypnotic. It’s one of those rare films where you forget you’re watching a story, because it feels like you’ve been pulled into a secret. Set in colonial Korea, the plot sounds like a con: a thief and a fake nobleman plan to trick a rich woman. But very quickly, the game slips out of their control and becomes something deeper, more dangerous, and surprisingly…

Sinners

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

▼ Review in English and French ▼

🇺🇸 / 🇬🇧 English

Sinners is a powerful and emotional film that mixes blues music, horror, and history. Set in Mississippi in 1932, it follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) who return home to open a music club. Their plan is disrupted by a group of white vampires led by the mysterious Remmick (Jack O’Connell), representing deeper themes of cultural theft and oppression.

Director Ryan Coogler