amoderndandy

amoderndandy

Favorite films

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • The Favourite
  • Amour Fou
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

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  • Belle

    ★★★★

  • Chevalier

    ★★★★

  • The Menu

    ★★★★½

  • The Phantom of the Opera

    ★★★½

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  • The Menu

    The Menu

    ★★★★½

    I would not necessarily have rewatched this AGAIN so quickly, but somebody suggested it for our Saturday Film Club, and I didn't mind. And actually it worked just as well as the first time around. It wasn't more exciting, but also not worse. It was just what it was. And it was definitely better than the burger I ate while watching it.

  • Barbarian

    Barbarian

    ★★★

    Starts strong and then gets real boring... Most of the excitement in the second half comes from hoping something interesting might happen.

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  • The NeverEnding Story

    The NeverEnding Story

    I hated this film as a child - I still hate it. The book is a huge part of my childhood and in addition to overshadowing the book in the public's consciousness, at least internationally, the film also makes several changes that are truly detrimental to the book's message. Watching this again in 2022 let me appreciate the effects and puppetry, and the Artax scene really got me - but all in all the film is not just not good but actively bad.

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    Watched this for the 4th time in the cinema, making this my official film I saw the most times on the big screen, to mark my departure from cinemas for the next months, due to travel for work. And what a film to, temporarily, go out on. It grabbed me just as much as the first time, but I was also moved more than ever before. All in all this is simply perfect - to me. I can't wait to…