Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Broken Circle Breakdown 2012

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Apr 2023

  This one was quite hard, especially after watching the Dead Ringers (2023) remake which had already primed me to be highly receptive to the subjects of family trauma, birth, and loss

  The Broken Circle Breakdown (2013) and Song to Song (2017) are pretty similar with their Country music plots, non-linear storytelling, and romantic failures. Where TBCB excels is its willingness to display the brutality and pain that StC hides

  TBCB is not larger than life, nor it is only a slice…

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  Dead Ringers 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Apr 2023

  Dead Ringers (2023) doesn’t have a lot to do with Cronenberg’s 1988 version, and I am writing this with the best intentions only. It is still provocative and unsettling, but it has larger motives than showcasing two clairvoyants (or should I say Clairevoyants) with grotesque instruments designed to operate on mutant women. The horror that the reboot encapsulates is slightly less physical but somehow more tangible at the same time. Combined with genuinely funny screenwriting, it becomes a delightful mini-series…

Popular reviews

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  Basic Instinct 1992

  ★★★★ Rewatched 01 Apr 2023

  I don’t want to exaggerate, but this is one of the cornerstones of the cinematic industry, and looking at it from today’s apparatus to label it as a misogynistic exploitation feels slightly unfair

  There is no meaningful social commentary or psychological stimuli, but these are not what the Basic Instinct is about. Verhoeven was not (and has never been) in the mood of appeasing his audience, so being offended by a tantalising Basic Instinct should not be a discussion point. As Metz argues, film is only an imperfect reflection of reality

  The Goncharov (1973) references of an ice-pick murderer is still palpable

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  Blind 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2023 1

  I hope 2023 for all of us goes as good as the first film I chose to watch in it - Blind !

  Blind is a hypnotisingly beautiful story on how scary it is to not know what is going on around and with one's self rather than a tried take on how does it feel to lose your eyesight. Ingrid's blindness is only an objectivation of that fear & a plot device to normalise the highly vivid scenarios taking place…