Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Terrifier 3 2024

  ★★★ Rewatched 29 Dec 2024

  (Viewed “Making Of” featurette prior to feature)

• 

  Smile 2 2024

  ★★½ Watched 20 Oct 2024

  Smile and it’s the same but a wee bit gnarlier so it’s not

Popular reviews

• 

  High Life 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Sep 2018 10

  It’s films like this that can stay cemented behind your eyelids long after a festival is over; which breathe new life into your hope for what is cinematically possible, or for what overarching themes we might some day filter our darkest and wildest ideas through.

  And a lot of people are going to truly despise this.. but I was completely and utterly mesmerized. This is masterful and focused, both head and stomach-turning stuff. Feels at times eerily familiar - but…

• 

  High-Rise 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Sep 2015 6

  Wheatley has achieved something undeniably zany, fun, shocking, perplexing, and straight up insane. However, it's also one of the best-articulated and visionary ventures into full-on manipulation of film form and theme I've seen in some time, and it makes for one hell of a picture - whether or not you can keep your head on straight for its entirety. Boasting an incredible soundtrack and score, vibrantly crafted cinematography, impossibly configured editing, and a string of impressive performances from a talented…