Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Dec 2023

  It feels as though I love this film more than I should, and I think that’s a drastic more. The first film I saw was Sleepy Hollow (1999) at the tender age of 3, and my ever-increasing infatuation with Bloodborne (2016) assures me that I am instilled with a thirst for grand Gothic Victorian worlds - with their swirling darkness, revelling in blood, descending humanity, illustrious leather fits, shadowy visual identity, unhinged string motifs, and it really goes on and…

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Sep 2023

  Writing about this CREATURE is inherently strange, because it’s such a recognisable modern classic; it feels daunting to speak on it and say something different. Ah but fuck that! These are this viewing’s two spiritual facets:
  - The magic/realism narrative utilises abstraction in one of the most emotionally compelling and visually engaging ways, back to Disney-gradients and hues of Hollywood’s technicolour birth BUT propelled forward with the Heat-esque city lights and isolating neo-noir world.
  - The underpinning sadness to both characters,…

Popular reviews

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  Princess Mononoke 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Nov 2022

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

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  Alien 1979

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Nov 2022

  It always strikes me how artistically strong this film is, in spite of its ‘B-movie premise’. 
  Colours and ambient lighting showcase in a stylised and downright beautiful manner akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the set-design is probably the best ever (the vents, final mist-filled 10 minutes, LV-426). Practical effects shine to an extent where you can sense the texture of the models and costumes, from spacesuit to alien. H.R. Giger, Ridley Scott, and Dan O’Bannon converged with an alignment that…