Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025 7

  I love watching a Lynch movie, going,"the actual fuck is this?" And then like 4 weeks later it clicks and I go, "Ok yeah I kinda get this dude" that being said 'Cooking with Quinoa' is a better feature honestly.

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Feb 2025

  A gateway into the surreal. Unlike his other films, Lynch was compelled to give us much more concrete clues to the meanings of his imagery and pathos that's unique to only a few of his films but especially this one. And it's also brimming with charm and the core ugliness and beauty of humanity. It's the guilty desire and the shame and the darkness, but also the courage to overcome that shame and to combat that darkness. And that core…

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2023 1

  This film is criminally underhyped, I believe that some have mistaken Chazelle's boldness in his newest venture as a step down from the personal dramas of his last two films. Whilst the themes of his previous two films were more expressions of the arcs of the characters, the inverse is true here, where the characters arcs are a result of the overarching themes of the nature of filmmaking and the real consequences of its creation. Where his first two films…

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  Grown Ups 2 2013

  ½ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  Makes you miss the days when life was all about brutally humiliating and beating people down physically and emotionally. When every day was about being as self-centred and apathetic as you could be. Makes you reminisce about being a selfish child who disregarded the needs of everyone around you purely for your own gain, when people were just toys to be played with and words were useful in tearing down other human beings in a wave of pure hate. It scares me that Adam Sandler misses those days.