Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Four Lions 2010

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Quite possibly the only film to ever be made that features an Aphex Twin tune and a crow getting blown up by a wannabe Jihadist. I don’t have too much to say about Four Lions to be honest. Riz Ahmed is fantastic and really holds the film together, and I think without his presence this film wouldn’t be as highly thought of as it is. The film is undoubtedly hilarious and does a good job of drawing up Islamophobia and…

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  Slow West 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025 7

  Maclean, king of the split diopter. I’m all for any western which is able to subvert the genre while still holding to the tenants of any classic Western. Although Slow West does subvert the visual style we expect from westerns by using a brighter colour grade and some lovely cinematography, when you’re watching Mendelsohn, Smit-McPhee, and Fassbender dialogue with each other it’s all on display to be seen that Slow West’s real subversion is this sort of bizarre innocence held…

Popular reviews

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  Gummo 1997

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Apr 2024

  Harmony Korine oh how I adore your strange brain. I love Gummo so much, and much more on a rewatch upon realising that it was filled with bangers like Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitat! I also love the anti-narrative approach and will always be continually surprised at how Gummo didn’t spark a trend for the use of anti-narrative cinema, it really should have. Oh and Chloë Sevigny the woman that you are.

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★ Watched 22 Dec 2023 2

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