Theatre maker. Host of INK & PAINT podcast.
Film critic for SWITCH. Very earnest.
Art is subjective and so are my opinions.
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Bringing Up Baby 1938
“There IS a leopard on your roof and it's MY leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”
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Tom Jones 1963
“It is hard when a woman leaves a man nothing but memories. And a muff.”
This is one of those rare cases of watching something and seeing the entire language of a genre blown apart in front of your eyes. People must have lost their fucking minds, seeing this in 1963, the notion that you could combine classic British literature with the experimental immediacy of the British New Wave, while lampooning the form at the same time. It’s a building…Translated from by
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Birdeater 2023
Thoughts I had while watching Birdeater:
- Tell me these filmmakers went to a private boys school without telling me these filmmakers went to a private boys school
- This film has such aggressive Sydney Uni energy, it might as well be wearing a striped rugby polo
- These guys really want us to know they’ve watched all the A24 horror films, don’t they.
- Shouldn’t this have ended already?There’s no question that Fax Machine have talent. The filmmaking is…
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Challengers 2024
A mother-fucking symphony, the kind that grabs you from the first note and holds you in dumb-struck awe until the final triumphant blast. Visceral and vicious, unrelenting and rapturous, it’s the intoxicating euphoria that comes with the total immolation of the self, the all-encompassing pursuit of perfection, even when you know that you’ll never measure up.
There isn’t a facet of this film that isn’t executed with absolute control, from the dizzying cinematography to the jaw-dropping editing to the fuckin’…
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