The cinematic event of the year. A ion project for the ages. Fascinating, distinctive, stylistic. Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus. From his dreams to our screens, he brings us Megalopolis, a film forty years in the making, and a film that will live on for many decades to come. All of Coppola’s money and mastery invested into the climax of his brilliant career. A film as intriguing as it is divisive. 

An absolute marvel to look at, and similar to…

One aspect of Miyazaki’s films that he never fails on is his extraordinary world-building. Worlds that are so rich and fascinating, and I would give anything to live in (most of) his worlds. He always creates some of the most beautiful and unparalleled hand-drawn animation to ever exist, vast shots of valleys and humongous clouds or grand air battles and high-speed train chases, he never fails to get us immediately immersed into his infinitely detailed worlds. Another thing he does…

Isao Takahata’s environmentalist plea told through a small, struggling community of silly and loving raccoons, during the vast industrialism of Tokyo’s forests. An anti-urbanisation film, whilst also emphasising the possibility and importance of coexistence between humankind and nature. It also presents our irresponsible negligence when it comes to industrialisation, leaving countless habitats and wildlife devastated in our destructive quest to conquer more land and resources, completely ignorant of the consequences. A sheer disregard to preserve the wilderness; flattening one mountain…

I had a really good time with this! I last watched this almost 2 years ago now, and I was truthfully half expecting my rating of it to drop, but that is not the case at all. It’s still as gripping and entertaining as I ed. Probably the closest Scorsese has gotten to a horror, and that element makes some of the best parts of the film. A truly underappreciated film amongst Scorsese rankings, at least as far as what…

A 2020s DreamWorks animated sequel that had absolutely no right being as good as it is. In this day and age, you do not get that very often, but this is genuinely one of the best looking and most stylistic animated movies in the past decade. It’s so intricate and masterfully made, and it has a few awesome anime-looking fight scenes and some of those dissolves in silhouettes are actually crazy to look at. 

At times, it can be quite…