Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Requiem for a Dream 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Nov 2024

  The last time violins made me physically wince like this they were tuning for school orchestra

• 

  Aliens 1986

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Sep 2024

  You could literally calibrate a polygraph test on me by asking whether there's anything in the world cooler than Ridley in the forklift mech throwing hands with the queen. Channeling almost a fraction of the power of Real Steel.

Popular reviews

• 

  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jun 2022

  This film just kind of is amazing in every single way.
  Like these are pretty heavy emotional beats to hit, but it's never not having a fun time with it. It's never indulgent in the sadness or gives nihilism much respect
  It's like oh here's this family under as much strain as it possibly can be, on the brink pf falling apart. Let's put googly eyes on this baseball bat. It's so just triumphant in it's rejection of letting the…

• 

  Hot Fuzz 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2023 1

  I admit it. Everyone else was right and I was wrong. This is better than Shaun of the dead. The sheer density of cameos and visual gags in this film just makes the neurons in my monkey brain fire nonstop while watching it and I think more films should give stephen merchant a pet goose to be entirely honest.

Following