Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Jun 2024

  kind of turned on and confused

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2023 1

  In this movie, so much happens, yet nothing happens - much like how our real lives are. Nora (Na Young) emigrates from Korea with her family as a 12 year old, bidding goodbye to her old life, her old name and her childhood sweetheart, Hae Sung. They serendipitously meet again when she looks him up as a joke 12 years later, only to discover that he too, has been looking for her. They take up where they’ve left off -…

Popular reviews

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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 May 2021

  who knew heartbreak could be sexy?

  
  Edit (16/5/2021): Across life and the web (now integrated into our lives so much so that it’s almost an extension of our reality) we’re all tryna be recognised and be seen for who are. I mean the inter web can be an interesting, double-edged space — we are simultaneously showing a version of ourselves, yet also maybe showing our vulnerable side. But then again, you can write all about your kinks and your darkest…

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  Miss Congeniality 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 03 May 2021

  It’s honestly really cute and I had a good time. There’s something really poignant about the sweet, innocent optimism of pre-9/11 American films (this was released in 2000!)