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Favorite films

  • Double Indemnity
  • The Apartment
  • Queer
  • Phantom Thread

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  • Blade II

    ★★★

  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army

    ★★★½

  • Hellboy

    ★★★½

  • Body Double

    ★★★½

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Past Lives

2023

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

A film that I endlessly adore. A film brimming with excellence and lessons about separation of the heart and the head. A movie about the importance of embracing your own path with uncompromising belief. The necessity of both independency and codependency alike. A love letter to nostalgia, the bitter and warm and overwhelmingly comforting falsehood of nostalgia.

It’s the sleeping in not for rest but to stay in
the relief that your dreams hold. It’s the constellation’s of a future…

Dune: Part Two

2024

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

I have never seen a movie more than once in a cinema, never more than once in one week and never on my own. I left the cinema today completely lost for words, completely blown away and almost in a state of shock, even on my second viewing.

Denis Villeneuve has balls of fucking steel and along with the genius of Greig Fraser and a monumental Hans Zimmer score, completely reinvents everything we know about science fiction and visual storytelling.…

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Body Double

1984

★★★½ Watched

Brian De Palma presents Vertigo, Rear Window and Porn.

ion

2012

★★★½ Watched

Ummm…easily one of the weirder De Palma flicks.

Even in an oddball, somewhat uninspired, narrative like this - there is still the occasional classic Palma juice that comes with anything he touches. Aka - split diopter shots are cool as fuck. What a weird filmography Rachel McAdams has by the way, a phenomenal actress with such meaningless performances. Anyway, this erotic-psycho drama has its moments, but the landing definitely skids a little. I just can’t deny the camerawork, along with that last half hour.

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Vertigo

1958

★★★★★ Liked Watched

My heart sank a million times and I’m still waiting for it to come back up. 

No one needs to hear me ramble on about how this is a complete masterpiece. Or how Hitchcock just creates the ultimate feast of tension, horror, love, twists and ultimately turns. A masterminds study on a spiralling subconscious ravaged by grief. Visually, as gorgeous as Kim Novak in this flick, stunning. I could talk for hours about this film…the camerawork, editing, script, location, sound…

Thunderbolts*

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Florence Pugh - the BEST anyone has ever looked on screen??

Cried like a bitch. Nothing more to say than we’re so fucking back.