Ian Hugo

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Favorite films

  • Trainspotting
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★

  • Dog Man

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    Like Starship Troopers but for a postcapitalist (and just as fascist) society

  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★★

    This movie is better than Longlegs. Knows it’s a dumb horror movie and leans into that to great success- very funny and VERY gory, with a very 70’s vibe. I’ve never seen Stephen King’s writing style translated better into an adaptation than this- a great time

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  • Ashes and Diamonds

    Ashes and Diamonds

    ★★★★½

    Poland, May 1945: the war is over, but things are far from perfect. “The end of the war isn't the end of our fight,” says Szczuka, and while his compatriot and would-be assassin, Maciek, is fighting for the other side, Szczuka’s words ring as true for him as they do for the speaker. A film about the struggle of choosing between political/national identity and personal identity, doing what’s “right” for your country/party or what’s right for you. Also shows the absurdity…

  • The Northman

    The Northman

    ★★★★½

    If I had to choose one word to describe this film, it would intense, this film is fucking intense as anything I’ve ever seen. That being said, there are a whole host of other words that immediately spring to mind: brutal, bizarre, visceral, surreal, and otherworldly, with an epic screenplay for an epic tale of revenge— seriously, some of the shit they say in here is just so fucking awesome lmfao. Been very excited for this for a long time…