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Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Boyhood
  • Before Sunrise
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • Phantom of the Paradise

    ★★

  • The Wedding Party

    ★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • Grand Theft Hamlet

    ★★★★

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  • Phantom of the Paradise

    Phantom of the Paradise

    ★★

    This bloke couldn't tell a cohesive story if his life depended on it.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    I am usually all for Bong Joon-ho's genre-hopping tricks. The Host is hugely underrated for the way it handles genre shifts, Snowpiercer is like a masterful juggling act, and Parasite, well, we all know about Parasite. However Mickey 17 appears to go out of its way to avoid anything that could be interesting about this premise. Instead forgoing the moral implications of such a device for satirical mugging and a half-baked environmental message. Sure we have the break for the…

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  • The Wicker Man

    The Wicker Man

    ★★★★

    The Wicker Man needs a different title and a different genre, it is very clearly a musical and I’d love to hear any argument to the contrary.

  • Sisters

    Sisters

    WTF this is so bad. Everything from the Peeping Tom show which makes absolutely no sense, to the awful French accent, to the doctor whispering the plot directly into the ear of the main character for five minutes. The camera tricks do nothing for me. The venerated split screen is absolutely fine - I suppose it serves a purpose.

    Working through Brian De Palma's filmography has revealed he was a solid comedy director who all of a sudden decided to start "pastiching" (completely ripping off) Alfred Hitchcock. But to what end!?