Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  For a 3 and a half hour film about an architect who starts a project, project suddenly stops and then restarts several years later, it should have been the most boring film I’ve seen so far this year. But it wasn’t. Far from it.

  Performances were excellent. Brody specifically but Pearce and Jones were just as outstanding. It looked beautiful. Such a gorgeous piece of cinema and the score? Perfection. Can’t believe it’s a 9 mil movie. They’ve used some…

• 

  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Oct 2024

  The sound mix, the shots, the subliminal messages and the practical effects…. Thank you. Best body horror in a long time.

Popular reviews

• 

  Lucent 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Dec 2017

  How do you rate something 5 stars, when it leaves you a shell of your former self? I guess if we’re going to eat it, then we’re going to have to watch it. This documentary repeats the same torturous shots again and again and again until you feel so ashamed and sick of humanity, that you truly start to believe that vegan is the only way. Filmed with hand helds and hidden cams, this creation doesn’t let you miss one…

• 

  The Lion King 1994

  ★★★★★ Added

  Nothing but love and passion for this film. In my opinion this is the best animation of all time and I seriously don't think that anything in the future will ever come close to even comparing to it. As a child I could watch it over and over again and it seemed to get better every time. As an adult it helped through some really dark moments of my life and made me realise just how important it is to…