Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Fire Inside 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  'A solid and well-told contribution to the boxing genre; a story which is equal parts inspiring and enraging.' Full review at THN: thehollywoodnews.com/2025/02/06/the-fire-inside-review-dir-rachel-morrison-2025/

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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  'The empathy in the storytelling and in the performances makes Hard Truths, a very captivating, no-frills drama, that offers little answers and even less resolution to those titular truths, yet is rewarding all the same.' Full review at THN: www.thehollywoodnews.com/2025/01/29/hard-truths-review/

Recent reviews

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  Here 2024

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I respect the swing of this thing, which can be quite effective in terms of narratively and visually weaving across time to give it strong thematic grounding. But it can also really clunk in some transitions, and Hanks and Wright just don’t ever really convince thanks to the de-aging which fails pretty much whenever it’s implemented. The whole look of the thing also has a distancing effect after a while, as the artifice of it all can be distractingly obvious and…

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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  I connected with this one a lot more this time around for whatever reason. It still feels like one of Lynch’s most abrasive works, but Cage and Dern really make it work, to the point I felt my heart soar a bit as he ran over cars to get back to her. A strange beast but more rewarding than I had remembered.

Popular reviews

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  Reminiscence 2021

  ★★½ Watched 20 Aug 2021

  What a deeply silly movie. It is overwritten in nearly every aspect, from its near future dystopia world-building to its hammy neo-noir voiceover. It drowns its own ideas in its flooded city landscapes, occasionally offering some intriguing images in a world that see-saws from fascinating to befuddling. It wants to be a Philip K. Dick joint, and I admire it for doing something original and a bit strange, but too many components simply don’t fit together. Still, I must admit,…

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  Bohemian Rhapsody 2018

  ★½ Watched 25 Oct 2018 2

  Formulaic, completely surface-level, smug and generic, all words I would never use to describe the actual band Queen or their front-man Freddie Mercury. Rami Malek is the only one trying for anything that feels authentic, but the film around him is having none of it, simply content in broadly expressing the complex nature of the music and of Mercury himself. If it were any other band or man, this would be a two-star biopic, but the fact that it is Queen, it feels all the more tragic and reeks of missed opportunity. And that just breaks my heart. But hey, at least the music is great.