Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Dec 2024

  “We’ve been trapped before.”

  It is 2009 again. I am seated in a (seemingly) larger-than-life 42nd Street theater in New York City on Thanksgiving night. Once the credits roll and the house lights flicker back on, I am aware I have changed - yet am unsure how. A feeling I continuously unravel, little by little, with each subsequent watch.

  And as time persists, the tactile nature of Fantastic Mr. Fox remains its most appealing factor. Whether it be the mangled fur of a clip-on…

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  Beyond Evil 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Jun 2024

  “You’ll be going back soon.”

  Each viewing feels like a long walk through a place you know you recognize, but are certain you have never been. Every frame acts as a bread crumb, carefully leading you back. Not to where you came from, but to where you belong. 

  To Manyang. To the dingy substation. To the open fields and their endless reeds that sway back and forth, pulling you in closer. Closer to the land (the mud and the dirt and the…