Luke Thomas

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Paddington 2 enthusiast and Babylon apologist.

Favorite films

  • Withnail & I
  • Babylon
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Paddington 2

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  • Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

    ★★★★

  • Six Men Getting Sick

  • The Consequences of Feminism

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

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  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

    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…

  • Paddington 2

    Paddington 2

    ★★★★★

    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 Missing Pieces

    Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

    ★★★★

    What a good time. Imagine having the restraint to create something as genius as the 2x4 Pete Martell scene or as nice as the Ed and Norma scene and cut it. Would have been amazing to see a Lynch edit with these scenes added back in to the finished film, but as if stands this is a great compilation of scenes from one of the best series ever made, with scenes so good it almost works as its own film.

  • Six Men Getting Sick

    Six Men Getting Sick

    Really does what it says on the tin.

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