Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  This movie is a psychological drama, a greek tragedy, a dark comedy, body horror Cronenberg x Tsukamoto style, there is a little bit of The Shining, The Truman Show, Sunset Boulevard, The Elephant Man, it is loud, it is brash, it is also intimate and tender, but most of all it is a big fuck you. It is the movie Barbie didn't dare to be, the movie I didn't know I needed. Feminist body horror seems the most blatantly obvious…

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  Monster 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Recent reviews

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  Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Nope, watching The L Word instead.

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  Liebestraum 1991

  ★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2008

  Mike Figgis (and Adrian Lyne) excelled in sensual cinema before Luca took over.

  What made me think about this and decide it needed a review was bdcom's Jeffrey Kauffman saying Mike Figgis was not an Arthouse director before Leaving Las Vegas.

  Mooooment.

  Mike Figgis directed

  - Liebestraum in 1991, which can only be described as deeply arthousey.
  - One Night Stand in 1997, after Leaving Las Vegas, which, again, is arthousey
  - And to top it off, in 2000, he directed Timecode, a movie that makes split screen into an art form.

  So yes, Mike Figgis is, and always has been, an Arthouse director.

Popular reviews

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  The King of Pigs 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2022

  One of the best things I have seen in quite some time.
  Raw, devastating, complex, beautiful, unflinching, a masterpiece.

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  Freud: The Secret Passion 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Jul 2022

  An astonishing undertaking: a film about the development of ideas rather than biographical stations that is as suspenseful as a thriller. A whip-smart script (are there residues of Sartre in the finished product?), engaging performances by all the leads, experimental dream sequence cinematography and a great score.

  The unconscious, denial, dreams, transference, Freudian slips, talk therapy, symbolism, childhood sexuality, it's all there.

  The only thing I could have done without is the narration that bookends the film, done by Huston…