Izzy

Izzy

Only started properly writing reviews in 2025 as a New Years Resolution, off we pop.

Favorite films

  • Moonstruck
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • Swing Girls
  • All That Jazz

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  • Swing Girls

    ★★★★★

  • La Chimera

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • The Girl with the Needle

    ★★★★

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  • Swing Girls

    Swing Girls

    ★★★★★

    My goodness, such a fun and charming romp, I had an absolute blast with this movie. Colorful, lively, and just a complete and utter joy to watch with every minute, Swing Girls showcases how stumbling onto a passion can change your life.

    Succeeds in both small and large comedy bits and banger chemistry between all the cast members, I'll freely admit to being an absolute sucker for ensemble casts but this is a film that shines nonetheless. Just one of…

  • La Chimera

    La Chimera

    ★★★★½

    A meandering stumble through history, mythology, and fable, La Chimera is a lush exploration of a man out of time, place, and reality.

    Our main character Arthur is one constantly enchanted by the past (both his own and the world), achingly drawn towards it and enraptured by both the artifacts of those long dead and gone, as well as the shuttering and bright memories of his past love. There's something heartbreaking in the way we the audience see many opportunities…

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Though I think the plots overall sketch was rather predictable in a way that just barely made it to satisfying, Bong Joon Ho showcases distinct tone, character dynamics, and storytelling to create a final product that is certainly a fun romp.

    I love much of his oeuvre, but I think it's easy to see that his english films are much more likely to babymush and spoon-feed their politics to their american audiences (and I'll be the first to say deservedly…

  • Excalibur

    Excalibur

    ★★★★

    Lush yet bare. Fleshy and warm yet steely and cold. Excalibur to me seemed a movie that was constantly balancing between the achingly ethereal and absurd with dark and gritty reality of the late antiquity/early middle age period (or at the very least, our modern understanding of it).

    A mad dash through the Arthurian legend in its entirety, the film refuses to pull an audience through one visual slog of a singular quest and instead relies on your suspension of…

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