Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Feb 2025 3

  Beautiful and melancholic film about both the inner experience of what queer and trans people go through and how art can be an extension of life itself. It felt so nostalgic and cozy, especially with all the neon themes. What resonated with me the most was the simple beauty of being so caught up in the lore of a show/film. As an avid consumer of media I’ve had some of my best memories made thinking back to the excitement and…

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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  Beautiful, authentic, and humane. A powerful film about being what you want to be, finding yourself and realising how authentic it becomes from within. We are not refined to the systems of stereotypical oppression. Art comes from within the soul and we must find beauty no matter how hard life gets. Immense yourself in it and you will always appreciate it. I was expecting a generic Oscar bait film but this is amazingly written and directed. The acting is powerful and authentic. Overall very touching,

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  Brutalist, my brutalist. Whether it’s the architecture style or systematic racism of immigrants living under a capitalist society, the word takes on many forms for this film. 

  You have to appreciate the grandiosity of this film. Unfortunately its self indulgence gets lost on me in the latter half. It tries to be too many things at once, which lets to its demise and messy ending. It should be more cohesive given its epic runtime. 

  The use of AI, even if it’s just for voice acting I absolutely detest. Where do we draw the line by allowing it into an art form.

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Jan 2025

  Revisiting my favourite Lynch films (which would be most of them) after the devastating news of his passing. I can’t help but notice how much the teenage melodrama of this film gives off Rebel Without a Cause vibes. The focus techniques used in all of close range shots were gorgeous.

  The innocence of youth on the backdrop of a dark suburban nightmare. Nobody turns the weird and ugly Americana into something so beautiful and dreamlike than Lynch does. 

  This generations…