Favorite films

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2024

  Evil can be so normal, so hidden from sight, so easy to block out. Much like an individual who lives next to a train station soon learns to never hear the coming and going, the rattling of tracks and hordes of passengers, one can become accustomed to the screams of anguish and horror, the constant existence of gunfire and smoke and ashes. 

  The things we wear, the commodities that we buy, we know they are only in our hands thanks…

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  Priscilla 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2024

  Such an interesting play on the genre, shooting and editing much of the relationship between Elvis and Priscilla as a romance movie would, with a meet-cute, scenes of playful love, kissing in front of fireworks, all exactly as Priscilla herself would’ve seen it at the time, and yet there’s stains and grossness for us, the more mature and knowledgeable audience, to witness in the little things.

  Apart from the very obvious age gap that the film makes very clear, (Sofia’s…

Recent reviews

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  “I haven’t spoken to you in five years, seen you in ten.”
  ”It’s nine and eleven, but those are just numbers.”

  The director whose dad died of HIV and mum was in one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre during September 11 makes a movie about a guy who has to realise that his mother dying of a “one in forty-four million” chance accident has led him to be too scared of the finiteness of life,…

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  First Blood 1982

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Feels impossible to say something new about a movie that’s been analysed as deeply as this but it is crazy how anti-war, anti-cop, anti-America’s militaristic past this is with the amount of success that it had. Hate to be that guy but we used to have movies that looked like this. These stunts and the action is impeccable! Pacing is out of this world! 90 minutes and manages to end on an unforgettable monologue delivered by an incredible Stallone. What a movie.

Popular reviews

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  Lover 2018

  ★★★ Watched 19 Dec 2018

  There's a scene where Ralph's character is driving at night with sunglasses on, so yeah, you could say he does a good job at depicting a disturbed guy

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  A Simple Favor 2018

  ★ Watched 07 Sep 2018 5

  I guess this isn't released in America yet, which is weird, cause Australia is normally the late one at getting movies.
  Anyway, yeah it's trash and completely eye-rolling. It goes from a suburban mother comedy, to a dark comedy, to a murder mystery, and then keeps switching between those three tones, but like, incredibly horribly.
  Every time I saw a cop in the film, i just wanted them to fucking shoot me with the guns they had, isn't that a normal thing in the U.S?