Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005

  Watched 12 Mar 2025 1

  The shithousery on display here from Dylan is truly admirable. His presence in the documentary exists purely to demystify the person everybody else is mythologising, with each earnest (and cynical) attempt to form a greater understanding of the artist and his art ultimately ending with him mumbling some ironically poetic zinger.

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  The Third Man 1949

  Rewatched 10 Feb 2025

  Me and my twin brother Alex talked about why this film would make a good double feature with Pale Rider on our podcast ‘Twin Features’: Stardom in The Third Man (1949) & Pale Rider (1985)

Popular reviews

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  Agent Cody Banks 2003

  Rewatched 27 Feb 2023 1

  Cody Banks: pushes teenager into a swimming pool

  Suspicious bad guy: “those are CIA moves”

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  Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

  Rewatched 24 Feb 2025

  I was 17 when I first saw Inside Llewyn Davis back in 2014. Afterwards, I bought some grey fingerless gloves, a cotton scarf and a beige satchel, and I let my hair grow out a little into shaggy curls. I listened to the soundtrack on repeat, as well as other folk musicians referenced in the film, and I wrote about it in any college essay I could feasibly squeeze it into. Obviously not fully grasping how much of a loser Llewyn is…