Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blackmail 1929

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Feb 2025

  This being Hitchcock’s first experimentations with sound make it a film of historical significance, but what's made even more apparent is the wholehearted adherence to his mantra of “resorting to dialog only unless necessary”. Indeed, much of the picture plays like a silent film. Alas, when conventional dialog is employed, presumably the result of reshoots, the staging is often "plain". Usually a simple two-shot of characters conversing. But that can easily be attributed to the limitations of the sound recording…

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  Blink Twice 2024

  ★★½ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  Zoe Kravitz is a cinephile and it shows. As a first time director, her formalistic touches are commendable. But there’s also a feeling that Kravitz and her co-writers try way too hard to model the film around a certain template, a la Get Out-lite. To her credit though, she achieves a darkly comic tone that suits the material, and the style and flash that she imbues the picture with offers a fascinating contrast to the horrors that are revealed later on.

  On the downside you get a quite terrible ending, one that feels like a massive heel-turn that betrays much of the protagonist's (and our) beliefs.

Popular reviews

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Jun 2022

  Long Live the New Flesh

  David Cronenberg’s return to the “body horror” space feels like the culmination of a career devoted to the concept of sex, technology, and human evolution, all not mutually exclusive. In the not-so-distant world of Crimes of the Future, humans have to contend with growing new internal organs (a disastrous side-effect of irreversible climate change?), consuming synthetic substances (because there’s just too much of it to do away with?), and discovering new meaning to the term…

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  Nope 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Aug 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.