Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  [Disclaimer: I am very conscious that one of the reasons I score this so high is because every moment, every scene was like watching on film what I’ve obsessed about, read about and listened to for years.] But if I had to think of a few other reasons, it would be very easy. Timothée Chalamet is outstanding. I loved the early Greenwich scenes, Dave Van Ronk and the scenes with Woody, Fixin’ to Die at the Gaslight. JC’s letters. Al…

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  Where the Crawdads Sing 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2024

  I’ve put this film off for a long time as I’ve been swamped with work (pleasure), and only watched it because it was leaving Netflix, but I was absolutely blown away. From the crazy and all too comparable story about the author being expelled from Botswana in relation to a murder investigation, an incredible second debut from Olivia Newman, Daisy Edgar-Jones just as brilliant a performance as in Normal People, Mychael Danna nailing the score, and then Taylor Swift smashing it right out of the park with ‘Carolina’.
  Perfect.

Popular reviews

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  Universe 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Sep 2023

  Mind-blowing, those first and last episodes were insane! All hail, The Sun God. I honestly learnt so much from this series, and it fits in well with my current read: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2024

  Only after coming out of that extravaganza of madness did I fully appreciate how good the score for this film actually was, and how Miyazaki was able to create something so deeply abstract and layered, yet so truly human. And those Parakeets man, they seriously cracked me up 🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜