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  The Act of Killing 2012

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  The amount of anonymous names in the credits really hammer home the everlasting legacy of trauma… an absolutely harrowing and essential film

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  Rope 1948

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Once again, the absolute CHAD that is James Stewart

Popular reviews

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  On my first watch in 2016, this was somehow a miss for me, I guess I didn’t feel the impact of this film at the time.
  On my second watch today in 2025, in a post-Covid era where we see a move towards the increasingly popular idea that “you don’t need to learn foreign languages anymore, AI can do that”, it is evident that many feel remorseless about turning away from the humanities and towards isolationism and technological development. In…

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  Pooh's Heffalump Movie 2005

  ★ Watched 14 Feb 2021

  All I can say about this film is that it was the second film I ever went to the cinema to watch (after Finding Nemo) when I was 4, and for some reason it traumatised me. I still remember a scene where the heffalump is commando crawling through the undergrowth, unseen, to steal Roo’s biscuits.. it triggered my fight or flight response and I was stifling my screams in the cinema while all the other kids enjoyed it. I had a full on meltdown after the picture outside in the lobby. Also what the fuck he stole Roo’s biscuits?? One star for instant trauma

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