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Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Annihilation
  • Little Miss Sunshine

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  • Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★★

  • Stand Up Solutions

    ★★★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★½

  • Memories of Murder

    ★★★★

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  • Saturday Night

    Saturday Night

    ★½

    Felt nothing watching this. If they tried a little less hard to force the frenetic energy then they could have made more scenes longer than 20 seconds, giving the actors something to work with other than trying to impersonate charisma they don't have. Clearly inspired by Sorkin, except Sorkin knows the importance of slowing down for a moment so a character to can reveal something deeper about themselves. Saturday Night is like if the movie Jobs was only the scenes…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★

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

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★½

    A good adaptation - but maybe a little too faithful to the book. Everything looks perfect: the cinematography, costumes, sets and cast feel like they're pulled straight out of what I imagined while reading the book, which was very satisfying. But I wish more was cut.

    Why make a big deal of introducing Mapes if her only other scene is Leto finding her dead? Did it have to introduce the term "Kwisatz Haderach" in Part 1? Even as someone who's…

  • Annihilation

    Annihilation

    ★★★★★

    Must have seen this nearly 10 times now. The final 20 minutes are still my favourite scifi/horror sequence of all time.

    Something I've noticed which I don't see talked about much with this movie is that it is explores Buddhist concepts including non-permanence, non-self, interdependent co-arising and aimlessness.

    What I love about the science "fiction" in this is the phenomenon of the shimmer is really just an acceleration/exaggeration of the already true nature of our reality. Everything around us (and…

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