Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Double Indemnity 1944

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Truly lyrical noir genius, from set-up to when it all falls gorgeously into place, Double Indemnity is one of those cinematic miracles that expresses the perfection of a water-tight plot being threaded together by an immaculate script. Consistently jaw-dropping and utterly stupendous.

  PS. My good friend Ed used to say this was one of the best there ever was, and watching it today gave me the warm feeling that he’s watching it up there on loop. Rest easy champ, you had the most immaculate taste. ❤️

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  Despite the Night 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Philippe Grandrieux films the human body like no other director out there. The ways he contorts the camera to express the fault-lines and grooves of his subjects are so unique and perplexing that it puts most other ‘experimental’ filmmakers to shame.
  
  Despite the Night joins Sombre and La Vie Nouvelle in being centred on the physicality of sex and violence and the liminal grey area that lies between, but here we see so much more of a focus on love…

Popular reviews

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  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024

  ★½ Watched 25 May 2024

  After having my childhood completely dominated by not only the original trilogy of this franchise, but the thunderous follow-up that is Fury Road, which had 14-year-old Alfie and his Dad absolutely howling with excitement and rolling out of the cinema in awe of the glory of practical effects driven cinema, I can’t help but feel rather appalled by Furiosa, a film which is so entirely two-dimensional, sensually vapid and genuinely rather painful to watch due to its application of woeful CGI…

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  Dumb Money 2023

  ½ Watched 25 Sep 2023 2

  A completely vapid exercise in moral irresponsibility and cultural ignorance, Dumb Money reduces each and every one of its uninteresting characters in its uninteresting plot to their uninteresting monetary value and, uninterestingly, keeps them at that level for the uninteresting duration of this sordid story. It is a dumb film, made by dumb people, packed with dumb performances with actors at their dumbest capacity, all presented as though it cares about anything happening in the real world. It is an insulting…