Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★ Rewatched 27 Jan 2025

  very moved this time around - Lynch always embraced shame and desire as twin restorative powers. and so inventively shot too, especially when Elmes goes full-bore Dalí with his compositions…

• 

  Twilight 2008

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025

  speaking my truth because this is so immaculately directed and shot and scored (by Carter Burwell! on his A-game! might i note!). complaints about Kristen Stewart’s performance seem to ignore the film’s central thesis: that desire is discomfort

Popular reviews

• 

  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 May 2023 2

  i’ve never had a religious experience but this is what i imagine it feels like. lynch drags his audience through a series of discordant vignettes set amongst the bleakest circles of human depravity - and then boils all the chaos down to a blinding moment of pure, transcendent catharsis.

  this is the darkest lynch has ever gone; stripping away the soapy facade provided by the town’s other residents to focus unflinchingly on the unspeakable horror that will come to tie…

• 

  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Jun 2024 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.