Ben Campbell

Ben Campbell

I love movies and work in a cinema. Dream job tbh

Favorite films

  • Annihilation
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • X
  • Gone Girl

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  • Anora

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★★★½

  • Emilia Pérez

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    “Prove to me that you believe in the system”

    Bong Joon Ho is the screenwriter of our times. Loved this so much. So much here on how workers are simply a disposable cog in the capitalist machine, a stark indictment of colonisation and general critiques on societal power structures. Bong has so much to say on the state of society and from Okja to Parasite and now, Mickey 17, he has proven he will never fail to find bombastically dynamic ways of telling his stories.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★½

    A haunting tale of how we are our own worst enemies, our biggest critics and our biggest detractors. How we will literally turn ourselves inside out to meet the ever unachievable beauty expectations of society. And how sometimes we view ourselves with such little self-respect that we would rather destroy ourselves piece by piece than just accept what it is we truly are and how we look. Connected with this one so much. 

    Robbed of the best screenplay Oscar.

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  • Scream 7

    Scream 7

    ½

    It's still free palestine and always will be

  • The Mauritanian

    The Mauritanian

    ★★★★

    Criminally overlooked film, deserved Oscar attention in editing, adapted screenplay, supporting actress and lead actor. Takes no prisoners (unlike the US) in pointing fingers at the atrocities of the war on terror.

    Edit: yes this edit is two years later but WHY DID WE NOMINATE JODIE FOSTER FOR NYAD AND NOT THIS?!?!?!? like she genuinely deserved a nomination for this why are we playing so much. This was also robbed for Actor, Picture and Adapted Screenplay.

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