Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Shadow of the Colossus-ass movie

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  Becoming Led Zeppelin 2025

  ★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Incredible archive work, and as a fan of course I’m going to enjoy seeing all the footage and hearing the recordings of this stupendous act, even if the very best stuff is clipped from the astonishing Led Zeppelin DVD. The Bonham interview audio is a real find, it would be half the film without it. The early reconstruction of the pre-band years, including Page and Jones’ adventures in the swinging 60s session scene, is fascinating.

  But… even in this current…

Popular reviews

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Feb 2024 1

  Somehow I didn’t realise this was about capitalism and our role in it as well as the holocaust. The garden extension, the tricky politics of promotion, showing off to the relatives. A skilled manager at work, optimising. But what’s the product of our labor, what is our wealth built on? We choose not to know, or rather to know but not to make the connection. I was pretty stunned when it sunk in that’s what Glazer was doing. The factual…

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  Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025 1

  Absurd that there’s a subplot in this that’s literally Ikiru, in which Miyazaki buys a plot of land across from his desk and waits for the local children to come and play on it — only he’s not a bureaucrat who’s wasted his life, he’s perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, adored by millions, struggling to complete a late masterwork while his friends drop like flies.

  And of course he drives a 2CV. Of course he does.