Michael Stamper

Michael Stamper

Favorite films

  • Your Name.
  • Parasite
  • Perfect Blue
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • Presence

    ★★★★

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★

  • Carry-On

    ★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    The wait is finally over. After Parasite's triumphs over 5 years ago, I have eagerly awaited Bong Joon-Ho's next film. Now that it's finally here, I can absolutely say the wait was worthwhile.

    Mickey 17 is a film that doesn't take long to get in to. I'm not too familiar with the book that it's based on, but in this case you don't have to be at all. Bong does an excellent job building this broken near-future world with aspects…

  • Presence

    Presence

    ★★★★

    This has long been on my hype list for 2025 films ever since seeing the trailer, and I was not disappointed at all. This is might be Steven Soderbergh’s most unique and creative film yet.

    Presence is shot and edited unlike any other film I've seen before. The way the film's long takes are presented from the POV of the titular 'Presence', and cut together at different points in time is super creative and engaging and really sets the film…

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★★

    My excitement for this has been off the charts since seeing the trailer earlier this year and even then, my expectations were exceeded. Celine Song's directorial debut is a masterpiece. Every shot in this is perfection, it's creative, conveys the story and feel perfectly and invests the viewer so much. The performances are incredible, and with the film just centering around the 3 main characters, you're able to feel even more invested in them. Other aspects like the score, were…

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★

    This was a really fun watch. I hadn't seen anything Wallace & Gromit related since I was 5 years old with The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but despite that being nearly 20 years ago, this latest installment in the series is filled with just as much laughs and entertainment as always.

    Aardman really hit it out of the park with the animation here. The stop-motion is done so well it was really hard to tell at times whether it was CGI.…