Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Foe 2023

  ★★★ Watched 25 Oct 2023

  Paul Mescal level 10 gyatt

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jul 2023

  Felt like a totally different film from what I saw two years ago, upon rewatching I realise the film has no singular understanding rather it is the various means of interpretation that make it such a powerful film. No one person will have the same experience with the film and every viewing will offer a new insight.

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 11 Aug 2022

  Honestly preferred on a second watch, the emotional aspects didn’t really stick for me the first time but definitely hit on a rewatch. The humour isn’t really my thing at parts and I think it gets a bit carried away/loses itself towards the middle of the film but it definitely pulls it back at the end. The overarching message of the film is relatively broad, tackling existential themes of life’s meaning, humans place within the universe and existence itself yet…

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 May 2021

  Parasite Review (Bong Joon Ho, 2019) - Class Critique and Capitalism 

  Bong Joon Ho’s 2019 magnum opus ‘Parasite’ is a nuanced allegory on wealth, inequality and class conflict as an outgrowth of the contemporary capitalist system. Parasite follows the Kims, a lower-class family living in modern day Seoul who form a symbiotic relationship working for the affluent Park family, following a series of well calculated cons usurping the previous employees. Bong adopts a Marxist approach, exploring ideas of alienation and…

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