Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 07 Jan 2025

  Accept your absolute innermost shame and you too can cast asunder a city under a field of rats

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Dec 2024

  Watching this at the BFI IMAX with the scale of sound it produces is the best cinematic experience this year. The squelching, the booming, the cackling, the clattering, the wanking, the splattering, the splashing, the cracking. All of it. Just the best film. We are hopefully in the Robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe era of psychological horror now.

Popular reviews

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  Mirror 1975

  ★★★★★ Added 6

  When I first saw Tarkovsky's much critically acclaimed, Mirror, I was living alone in the middle of Valencia, isolated, and at times struggling to cope with the pressures of adapting to a new, somewhat alien surrounding. Mirror became my coping strategy; watching it would both elevate me from personal conflictions and day-to-day problems. Most importantly perhaps, it enabled a personal evaluation through the idea that despite being an incredibly intricate and intimate outing, Tarkovsky forces the viewer to find themselves…

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  M 1931

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Aug 2012 5

  Ranking amongst the greatest of films ever made, Lang uses M as a means to explore the very state in which he resided for the majority of his early film-making career. Amidst swirling and mysterious shadows, the reflective nature of a glass pane and the oneiric, ethereal, brooding atmosphere lies something of the utmost importance: the implicit nature of humanity and moral ambiguity.

  Unintentionally drawing on a similar real life serial killer in Peter Kurten, M describes the furore surrounding…