Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Welcome to Me 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  My first 5/5 of 2025 (hey that rhymed!)

  As someone who is “technically” between diagnosis right now (don’t you love modern mental health eh?), and a father of a (fully diagnosed on that one. Thank you modern mental health!) AuDHD kid…

  … WHY HAVEN’T I WATCHED (or indeed, heard of) THIS FILM EARLIER???!?!!?!?
  OK, it’s been… 10min since the film ended… and I’m STILL grinning ear to ear?
  That’s kinda messed up, that I’m actually smiling (warmly at that) at…

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  Ponette 1996

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I'm astounished that they were able to make a 4yo enact so much nuances.
  There's really nothing to say about the story and the execution of the details... handled with the EXTREME care that the subject matter deserved.
  A little too long, but that's a tiny minor gripe.

Popular reviews

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  Beauty Is Not a Sin 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  Is this a... SUPER artsy motorcycle commercial?

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  Ra: The Path of the Sun God 1990

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Sep 2023

  People underestimated that this WHOLE film was done in special effect animation optically... an extremely precise and grueling work process with inversion photography, hand colorization with clear ink, precise mattes and hand blacking and masking, messing around with colored and rainbow gels on specialized rigs, precise backing up of film stock, changes in focus and aperture, changes in camera position/height/axis, multiple exposures, and double (triple, quadruple and more in places) optical passes all over the film.

  There's a reason why…