Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Wrong Trousers 1993

  Rewatched 24 Sep 2023

  Endlessly perfect

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  Somersault 2004

  Rewatched 29 Aug 2023

  This film’s release was something of an event in Canberra and audiences were legitimately excited to see their city in a feature film. It hadn’t really happened before. The brief early shots of the Belconnen bus interchange and Lake Burley Griffin were a revelation in 2004. Locals talked about them for years, and they still strike a chord.

Popular reviews

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  Heat 1995

  Rewatched 20 May 2023

  ‘One of the easiest ways to grasp the differences between Fordism and post-Fordism is to compare Michael Mann's [Heat] with the gangster movies made by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese between 1971 and 1990. In Heat, the scores are undertaken not by Families with links to the Old Country, but by rootless crews, in an LA of polished chrome and interchangeable designer kitchens, of featureless freeways and late-night diners...the ghosts of Old Europe that stalked Scorsese and Coppola's streets have been exorcised, buried with the ancient beefs, bad blood, and burning vendettas somewhere beneath the multinational coffee shops.’

  - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism.

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  Italianamerican 1974

  Watched 09 Jun 2020

  The recipe for the sauce in the end credits 🙌