Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Ngl, probably my least favourite Guadagnino film. I have seen and loved all that he's made of recent years, even sitting down to watch his TV show, WRWWR. But I found this to be meandering and frustrating.
  There are so many amazing aspects to this film. The miniature work rivals Wes Anderson (unique comparison ha), the score is phenomenal, and Daniel Craig is nothing short of reborn. But there are so many aspects that don't work for me. Drew Starky…

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  Incredibles 2 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  Still dam good!

Popular reviews

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  Clash 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Aug 2018

  Political films, especially modern political films, are brilliant. They are always made with such raw enthusiasm that you cannot help but become invested in the story they are telling, even if they do only tell the story in a one sided way. And then, you get the super-charged, ever relevant, political world cinema.

  Now I do not know enough about the Egyptian Uprising of 2013 to comment on it, but this is a film that deals entirely with that event,…

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  The Shining 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Oct 2018

  Film Club #3
  7 People.
  Everybody really liked it. I was shocked at how my opinion has changed of it. Now one of my favourite horrors, hands down.

  (I listed the timing as 2hr40mins for a cut of the film 40mins too long than what I had. I didn't realise the mistake and had a few apologies as a result.)

  MVP: Nicholson and Kubrick, why only one film together??...