Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 May 2024 2

  “i booked a room with two beds but there’s only one here.”

  about an hour before starting this i was pretty randomly compelled to go through some old family photos—i guess looking for photos of me. i think i just missed the film photography era so there’s a lot more of my sister, but there’s a few… looking at them though, it’s obviously hard to see much of myself: who is this little guy with the absolutely massive head (pray…

Recent reviews

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  TINĀ 2024

  ★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  i don’t want to be a total dick (and i’m glad big sing kids have their black panther ✊) but i’m not sure what it is about our filmmaking that makes it feels so limited at the moment. maybe it’s how cucked our industry is by hollywood outsourcing; maybe it’s our devotion to that style of “cinematic” sentimental advertising (ghost chips and its consequences etc), and so our filmmakers tell story within the boundaries of marketing or something—but it gets…

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  Hard Target 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  the v day pick ❤️ love you john woo mwah mwah

Popular reviews

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  Loop Track 2023

  ★★★ Watched 11 Aug 2023 1

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

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  We Were Dangerous 2024

  ★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2024

  nziff #1
  fun! appreciated how this establishes itself as very much not About Trauma but it does leave a bit of a hollow aftertaste. also falls into some general confidence issues that seem to haunt nz cinema a bit—can we put a ban on voiceover until we figure out what’s going on etc