Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Jan 2025 1

  Awakening

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  Oslo, August 31st 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 May 2022

  In the past, trends in cinema have romanticised drug addiction, dehumanised their subjects and taken very little effort to understand and empathise with the reality of the addict's world. Often these films can be seen exploiting these situations for cheap audience provocation or shock value; alienating the addict as opposed to relating to them and attempting to understand the causes of their struggle. 

  It's truly refreshing to see a film avoid this trend and take a more sensitive approach to…

Popular reviews

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2021 2

  I have been struggling to find a way to write about this film. Mulholland Drive feels almost impossible to describe in words. It's an experience that can only be appreciated by watching with an open mind and no preconceived expectations of what is going to happen. Don't try to understand it as you watch, let it carry you, move you and take you where it pleases. Only after can you begin to ask yourself what it means to you, if…

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  Wings of Desire 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Apr 2021

  Mesmirising, beautiful, haunting yet strangely comforting, words don't do it justice. I've never been more certain of a masterpiece in my life.

  Every individual filmmaking component, so masterfully utilised. So much so that the filmmaking itself could be thought of as a metaphor for the angels desires or even our own relationship with cinema and it's limitations.

  I've never seen a saturation shift used to Convey such strong feelings and emotions. A simple change from black and white to colour…