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Favorite films

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Poor Things

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  • Guardians of the Galaxy

    ★★★

  • Ran

    ★★★★★

  • Sideways

    ★★★★½

  • Chernobyl

    ★★★★★

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    This must be how those people felt when they watched the first moving image of a train in the 1900s, holy shit.

  • Arrival

    Arrival

    ★★★★

    It’s rare to see Australia in movies, it’s even rarer to see the WEST coast of Australia get mentioned. Good for Perth man.

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  • Guardians of the Galaxy

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    ★★★

    I re-watched this entire series while battling a truly brutal comedown, and man, did I learn some things about how my taste has developed since I was 14.

    With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the MCU lives in a pre-2014 and a post-2014 world. I do not think it is crazy to suggest that without that one year, the MCU fatigue we all feel may have hit a whole lot earlier. Going from the 2013 entries of…

  • Ran

    Ran

    ★★★★★

    The review for this one is pretty simple: Give Akira Kurosawa Shakespeare and technicolour cameras, and you'll get an epic without equal.

    Author's note: I am no Kurosawa scholar. Have a crack.

    It seriously blows my fkn mind this was filmed 31 years after Seven Samurai. To maintain such a sustained period of excellence and mastery of the craft is insane. May I be blessed with such career longevity.

    As with my previous Kurosawa review, I think I will list…

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  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    ★★★★½

    Probably my most anticipated movie of the year, so I really had high hopes going in, and boy do I thank the lord Yorgos is allowed to film such weird and unnerving moments and characters. Fuck, I really loved this one and will be seeing it again soon.

    My first and most dominant reaction was that I’d love to get a million movies with Emily Stone and Jesse Plemmons together with Yorgos at the helm. Just epic they are already…

  • L.A. Confidential

    L.A. Confidential

    ★★★½

    Firstly, Fuck Cops.

    Also a weird amount of Southern Hemisphere blokes for a film about L.A.