Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hellblazers 2022

  ★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  This surely was a series of scenes that appeared before my eyes.

  The creature design was pretty good, though under used.

  There's a lot of explosions, none of which are visually impressive or narratively satisfying.

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  The Cell 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  So stylistically refreshing, a genuine visual feast.

  Eiko Ishioka and April Napier knew what they were doing when they dressed her in that Theotokos-coded habit, and I might never recover as a result.

Popular reviews

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  Kingdom of Heaven 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Sep 2024

  Broadly, I enjoyed Kingdom of Heaven and its exploration of knightly virtue, even if I was not certain on what it really had to say other than a vague endorsement of deontological ethics over and against a more realpolitik or utilitarian approach. It was certainly visually appealing and the foregrounding of its themes through its dialogue was rather compelling for whatever subtlety it lacked.

  It is difficult, however, to detach this from the decidedly ahistorical (or, even, antihistorical) approach the…

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  Candyman 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  A horror centralising themes of urban mythology and racism that produces a narrative commentary on the disparate ways lives and points of view are valued based on their race and that contains ample psychosexual subtext?

  Sign me the fuck up!