Favorite films

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  Baby Invasion 2024

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  — whatever weird-ass edit the company (HK himself threw together —

  Baby Invasion (the demo ?) is somehow a captivating experience providing you can submit to it, that proves to be engrossing despite its chaotic nature. Korine’s inventive dreamscapes and dynamic visual transitions stood out for me, creating an immersive atmosphere that pushes the boundaries of conventional filmmaking.
  I’ll freely admit I’m so detached from gaming, and social spaces where interaction is visual such as twitch and discord that the film…

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  Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 2023

  ★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  A Low-End "Three Stars"

  Caligula doesn’t quite deliver on its promise of political intrigue or a fully fleshed-out character study. While there are moments of merit, they’re often buried under long stretches of tedious, poorly executed filler, mostly in the form of explicit content. Dated; and no longer gasp aloud shock sensitive!

  That said, there’s positives to be found. The film is a campy showcase of acting, with McDowell giving a performance half way stage-half way panto. Occasionally he thinks…

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2024 3

  -Screened at LFF
  From the very apt and very Baker-esque title sequence, a smirk I would not lose for the entire first act of the phenomenal Anora presented itself, one where in absolute joy I wanted to break into laughter, not least in it following Red Rockets opening but because I just knew this was my director and he had us all where he wanted within two minutes.

  Anora, which, in trying to give value to explaining the plot outside…

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2024

  I am unclear about how Emilia Perez came to be or why, how, and when the acclaimed 72-year-old and fave of my own French director Jacques Audiard decided to transform this once-extended opera (a genre he has never shown interest in, to my knowledge) into a bilingual commercial musical- for fucking Netflix studios lol.
  It’s bizarre, and result is perhaps equally so.

  If the introduction suggests any bias toward Audiard, I’ll admit that, as important as he is, I will…