Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Big Sleep 1946

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  i find humphrey bogart to be rather charming

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  His Girl Friday 1940

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  definitely a stressful watch. i enjoyed the quick witted humour and the heightened / ridiculous level of evil oozing from the journalists, especially funny when contrasted with the 2 golden retriever wife guys.

  was surprised by the ending! i guess i’m naive

Popular reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Oct 2022 1

  Watched at Vancouver International Film Festival 2022.

  A gorgeous, wistful, and at times jarring film. Aftersun does a brilliant job of plunging you into Sophie's world, of having you relive her memory of her holiday with her father, while meditating on our relationship to memory itself. Memories are re-experienced and given new meaning through the acts of recording, replaying, and reimagining, but we the viewers know that there is so much that goes uncaptured in this process. Scenes that emphasize…

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  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Oct 2022

  Oh my. I loved this! Aesthetically it was both hypnotic and jarring with the janky intertitle fonts, the harsh and angular set that looks like a horrific painting projected into real space, the abrupt colour changes, the floating text, and the bizarre, anxious score. It felt exactly like how my nightmares feel. On that note, I am definitely sleeping with a small light on tonight…