Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road 2021

  ★★½ Watched 05 Apr 2022

  Brian Wilson deserves better.

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  The Sparks Brothers 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2021

  Sparks are incredible, endlessly innovative, stunningly creative, utterly inspirational.. they are more than I can put words to,  I adore them.
  It’s just a shame the documentary was such a standard format and did a poor job of reflecting that.
  There are really brilliant things within it - some of the interviews and footage are great to see. But Sparks deserved something more artistic and unique like themselves.
  Under a different director this would have been fantastic.

Popular reviews

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  Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Jan 2019

  Very interesting piece about the somewhat infamous artist, Stanislaw Szukalski.
  A man at times charismatic, at times abhorrent, but never less than fascinating and incredibly talented.
  His eccentricities are laid bare in excellent interview footage collected by Glenn Bray.
  It is fairly typical as a talking heads documentary, with added Netflix style of forcing in action-like reveals. This is not at all necessary, a biography of Szukalski is guaranteed to be dramatic without this! At times it almost cheapens the…

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  Cold War 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Jan 2019

  In just 88 minutes this film says more than hundreds of hours of films I have seen.
  A piece of moving artwork, with incredible contrast and depth in beautiful black and white imagery.
  Every shot the two main characters are the only focus, everything around them seems to be faded and blurred to background. A harrowing prop to their impossible love.
  More important than the imagery however, is the music. From the opening moment it is something that moves the…