Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Hard watch (designedly). Looks and feels like a TV film (complimentary). Jean-Baptiste is brilliant (obviously).

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Jan 2025

  We were lucky to have him and we're lucky to have this film. It's many things - funny, scary, perplexing - but most of all I find it so unbearably sad. An utterly cinematic journey through horror and heartbreak, dreams and decay, loneliness and lovelessness. Naomi Watts' performance is one of my favourites ever. Billy Ray Cyrus' may be a close 2nd.

Popular reviews

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  Ex Machina 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Apr 2024 3

  That's more like it. Manages to be both an unnerving, edge-of-your-seat thriller and a powerful - and scarily plausible - cautionary tale, reminding us that AI is only as manipulative, selfish, and dangerous as the humans - specifically, the men - who make it.

  
  Speaks to the specific politics of our time in a way that Civil War doesn't/is frustratingly reluctant to

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  Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  The fear factor of that fucking penguin