Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Kiss Me Deadly 1955

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Sep 2024

  I can’t believe I’ve just had this plonked on my shelf collecting dust for however long. The absolute zenith of the genre. Viciously and sadistically hardboiled, leaving all morals compromised, only to brandish a nihilistic hopelessness and inscrutable paranoia of subversion in its most cynical form. Then to meet the most shriekingly, skin-crawlingly chilling of endings but also one of the most rewarding. I feel this the inspiration this distilled in future classics is vastly under-spoken about, one of which…

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  A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2024

  This is where acting peaked. Pretty much career-defining stuff from everyone on screen. The presence of a Marlon Brando is a pipe dream in the modern industry. That fiery, animalistic energy bursts directly out of the screenplay into the performances. The writing articulation and character work are that of another dimension, a simultaneous expression of desire, repression, and the harsh fantasy of an illusory reality in a devastatingly twisted form of gender dynamism. Alex North’s score is also a doozy.…

Recent reviews

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  No Man's Land 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Word Cinema Tour: Europe - Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦

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  The Electric State 2025

  ½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  There’s not a studio that has made its intentions more abundantly clear with the amount of money it’s throwing at projects, only for the product to end up like it does. This should go without saying, but if you’re inclined to expose yourself to something as harmful as this, please don’t let these careless, exploitative, fraudulent algorithm zealots extort your wallet for it.

Popular reviews

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  We Live in Time 2024

  ★★★ Watched 17 Oct 2024

  LFF #16

  Just about worthwhile! Garfield and Pugh do the colossal lifting and it feels like their chemistry and likability is diverting attention away from everything that simply falls short. The non-linear structure just feels like it’s kicking down the building blocks every time we’re switching around, though the soppy script isn’t doing anything to me anyway. It definitely has its moments and is probably worth checking out even if it’s just a one and done.

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Oct 2024

  LFF #17

  Luca Guadagnino is cementing himself in potential history with his current run of audacious works. An intoxicating mixture of surrealism and sensitivity. Luca visualizes the unimaginable whirlwind of emotions where obsession is born of the yearning for love and desire becomes both liberation and prison. Intricately exploring the fantastical dance between identity, longing, and self-destruction through the body and mind of a man trapped in a fevered cycle of lust and hedonism, expanding the ever-growing void. His counterpart…