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Favorite films

  • Magnolia
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Kimi
  • Sansho the Bailiff

All
  • sex, lies, and videotape

    ★★★★

  • The Girl with the Needle

    ★★★★

  • No Other Land

  • Special Delivery

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The Girl with the Needle

2024

★★★★ Liked 2

Beyond nasty. Went into this blind and in hindsight was probably not the best choice of film to watch on a flight with two young children sat behind me but hey what can you do. It’s another great entry into the very niche sub genre of evil gut-punch cinema — setting out to have a desired effect on the viewer and ing with flying colours all while telling a grounded story based on true events — not just an exhibit for cheap shock and horror. Two knockout performances and one of my favourite scores of the last 10 years.

Totally F***ed Up

1993

★★★ Liked Watched

Gregg Araki is one of few directors that i just can’t seem to entirely get on board with but really wish i could, he is undoubtedly talented with a strong voice and style. I love the unique feeling of youth and nostalgia he manages to capture from a precise era i find some sort of bizarre comfort in although completely unfamiliar with. His dreamy, nostalgic visual aesthetics and soundtracks i’m a huge fan of, this one in particular being my…

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Ok so apart from the first 40-60 minutes feeling like 15 minute sequences of the start to multiple different Mission Impossible movies, this was good and i had a blast, a really enjoyable experience. Probably more so the experience and the actual weight the film was carrying are what’s won me over as of right now and to be totally honest i don’t see that changing. Was it everything i would’ve wanted from a final film to close out the…

Zodiac

2007

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Despite the subject matter and about everything else that makes this terrifying i never realised until now how funny it actually is in parts. Seeing it for an eighth time i want to say? it’s quite clear that this is right up there with the best of the best american epics and without doubt one of THE towering pieces of work this century thus far. I’m talking like top 5 movie of the last 25 years good.