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Favorite films

  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Cabaret
  • Strictly Ballroom

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  • Josie and the Pussycats

    ★★★★★

  • The Wedding Banquet

    ★★★½

  • Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert

    ★★★½

  • Vertigo

    ★★★★

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  • Josie and the Pussycats

    Josie and the Pussycats

    ★★★★★

    Dujour means FRIENDSHIP.

    (also funny watching this and realising how many of the product placement jokes with american logos i didn’t get as a child)

  • The Wedding Banquet

    The Wedding Banquet

    ★★★½

    While the comedy aspects didn’t always land for me (half point deducted for the Min carrying Angela scene) this was such a gem of a film. Lily Gladstone is (unsurprisingly) the MVP, bringing a beautiful warmth while portraying a woman struggling with the weight of emotion while going through the process of IVF. There’s a lovely undercurrent through this film that’s about family; patchwork, messy, loving, conflicting. Found family can be just like that too. We got a look at…

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  • Glass Onion

    Glass Onion

    ★★★★★

    Loved this, an amazing and jubilant way to end London film festival. I loved that it played around more with the conventions of a murder mystery and especially in contrast to the first film, how sharp the script was and the absolute fun that everyone seemed to be having. Loved it brought in a little of Rian Johnson’s sci fi sensibilities into the plot, I should knock off half a star for nonsense but it was too much fun. Going…

  • Top Gun: Maverick

    Top Gun: Maverick

    ★★★★★

    Ahead of tonight’s event I had all sorts of silly jokes about how I’d seen TGM in every format (IMAX, Dolby, iPad on a plane, 4DX, ScreenX) so obviously going to the live orchestra with the London Philharmonic was on the books.

    But I can’t even make jokes because it was so good. From the intro by conductor Lorne Balfe, the little speech about the history of music in movies by Tom Cruise (look how I’ve slipped that in, by…