Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Sep 2020

  "If I do what you tell me, will you love me?"

  Hitchcock masterfully turns love inside out and considers strangling the life out of it. Based on a book with a different ending, Vertigo is a gorgeous light and shade façade of obsession and deception. So unlikely the premise that its long-lasting pleasure develops from tone and tension to metaphor and self-reflection.

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Sep 2020

  Tenet is an absurd and entertaining action movie and a wonderfully paradoxical, yet practically impenetrable, Sci-fi movie. It worked for me, but I wish there had been accompanying flow charts and an ice-cream intermission.

  "It's like James Bond on acid." - Empire Magazine

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

  ★½ Rewatched 27 Dec 2017

  The opening sequence of The Last Jedi begins as The Force Awakens ends; and in doing so creates a timeline overlap that only goes to amplify the jarring and blunt style transition taking place.

  The newly simplified existing characters and their cardboard tag-alongs spring from one unconvincing scenario to the next, while the trusted writer/director manically wipes the legacy slate clean. In it's place is served a large dose of passive and disposable entertainment that consistently fails to deliver enough…

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2017

  Denis Villeneuve successfully raises the bar for philosophical Sci-Fi noir as he continues to slowly explore the existential murk between naturally occurring sentient life and that which is artificially engineered. This outstanding production is packed with lusciously lingering scenes of unsettling and captivating spectacle that are exquisitely shot, reliably fascinating and adequately emotive.

  Blade Runner 2049 is a beautifully crafted film that sits a stone’s throw from being flawlessly executed. However, the emotional impact of a key scene spirals down the Uncanny Valley and the plot is so preoccupied with its sequel status that it pushes too hard to justify its own existence.