Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025

  Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Okay Renée Zellweger Risky Business sliding to David Bowie’s monumental 1983 hit Modern Love…you win this round

  I don’t know about stars but 5 full hearts for this.

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  The Sting 1973

  Rewatched 02 Aug 2024

  I’ll bring the hats if you bring the spats

Popular reviews

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  Ferrari 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2023 3

  Our deadly passion. Our terrible joy. 

  Life exists between two clicks of a stopwatch. Time a structural circularity, swooping down then sweeping up, never really moving and yet hurtling towards that second, final click all the same. Ferrari as the figurehead, the widow maker, the crown jewel, the scapegoat. Saturn devouring his own sons. A pen marked roadmap between lineage, brand, nation, patriarchy, capitalism, death. We’re here for the car. 

  The propinquity of death to drive, to lust, to performance,…

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2023 7

  What do we ask of an artist when we ask for truth? 

  When Ridley Scott faces his Napoleon against a defaced Sphinx in a recreation of Oedipus, when he pulls back from the self-crowning, self-fashioning king to sit behind the easel of Jacques Louis David, is he taking a wanton chisel to historical fact, or is he picking up his own paintbrush? 

  Napoleon is concerned with the power of image makers in myth building. Its central figure’s gift for self…