Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Yuki's Sun 1972

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  A bizarre little failed pilot and concept showreel for a TV series that never happened.
  Hayao Miyazaki’s first solo project feels rather like the dry run for Heidi that it is. About a Hokkaido girl called Yuki.

  Short, silly and full of many of the signature quirks of Miyazaki’s style and passions.
  It’s more a supercut of moments and ideas than a proper story itself.

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  Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection 2023

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Cronenberg, enacting some artistic imagery of wax dissection cadavers.
  Interesting and at 3 minutes, doesn’t outstay its welcome.

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 25 May 2022 1

  Multiverse stories are entirely en vogue at the moment. Between the vying comicbook franchises and their constant plundering of their back catalogues for ideas, and the few decent other properties that have utilised multi-universe string theories for plot, there have been few entries as good as EEAAO.

  The story centres round Evelyn, a middle aged laundrette owner, who is having a hugely stressful day, preparing for Chinese New Year, letting her aged father meet his granddaughter's girlfriend, and facing an…

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  Flight Risk 2025

  ★★½ Watched 06 Feb 2025

  An absolutely mediocre attempt at an action comedy thriller set on board a small prop plane.
  Mel Gibson fails to bring any of the panache and charisma he wound into films like Apocalypto, or Hacksaw Ridge, instead turning in this c movie drivel where all involved look bored, or on the edge of giggles throughout.

  It’s flat, silly, and very choppily edited with many continuity issues and a plot devoid of logic or sense.
  Skip.