Paddington 2 enthusiast and Babylon apologist. Host of The Sandler Pit and Reel Boyz.
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Synecdoche, New York 2008
Transient, existentialist masterpiece that's at times so difficult to watch, so darkly funny, so confusing, so unpleasant, so beautiful and so disturbing. It bares a resemblance to that horrifying last half hour of The Irishman in the way it shows the chilling horrors of loneliness, sickness, families moving apart, falling out of love, ageing, death, not succeeding, impotence, rot and nothing mattering, but to an even more painfully honest and absurdist degree.
I really have no idea what I think…
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Paddington 2 2017
I first watched Paddington 2 a couple of years ago on a whim whilst living in Southern China and this being the only film release in English at the time. This was just before Christmas; my first Christmas not only away from home but also thousands of miles from my country. I can't put in words how much this film meant to me then and how much it means to me now. It made me miss the UK and reminded…
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
What it lacks in the cosy tone of the original, it makes up for in feeling, mood and strangeness. Love the way expectations are completely subverted and nothing is resolved nicely or simply. Kyle MacLachlan is an absolute powerhouse here, playing four/five distinct characters and having all of them work for different reasons. The last five minutes are so weird and thought provoking and I am going to be thinking about this for a very long time. Thank you Lynch for this weird bullshit.
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SNL50: The Anniversary Special 2025
The bit with John Belushi walking around the graves of everyone he outlived made me feel weird and very very sad, everyone looked so old and everything is wrong.
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