Connor Ashdown-Ford

Connor Ashdown-Ford

Favorite films

  • Burning
  • Drive
  • Cure
  • Naked

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  • Sightseers

    ★★★★

  • Bored.

    ★★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★★

  • Heart Eyes

    ★★★★

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  • Sightseers

    Sightseers

    ★★★★

    Directed by Ben Wheatley, "Sightseers" follows Chris and Tina, a seemingly ordinary couple embarking on a caravanning holiday through the English countryside. Their relationship is riddled with unspoken tensions — Chris fancies himself a misunderstood creative spirit, while Tina is desperately clinging to her first taste of freedom after years of living under her mother’s thumb. What starts as a quaint getaway — museums, tram rides, and pencil factories — quickly descends into bloodshed when Chris reveals an alarming habit:…

  • Ostinato

    Ostinato

    ★★★★

    There’s something profoundly unsettling about Ostinato—a creeping dissonance beneath its elegant composition. In just one minute, the film distills a modern existential crisis into a simple yet striking metaphor: the relentless hum of tinnitus standing in for the insidious pressure of societal expectations. It's rare to see a short so precisely capture the sensation of being overwhelmed without descending into melodrama. Here, the pressure isn’t just heard—it’s felt.

    The film opens with Rose, perched at the edge of a house…

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  • Memoria

    Memoria

    ★★★

    I really wanted to love it, but I cannot sit here pretending I did, and I cannot pretend I had any idea as to what the fuck was going on most of the time. I've never seen a film so eager to remove, or shall I say separate, its audience from the experience. Jarring, overly long and lacking in substance, it felt like the director wanted to imitate Tsai Ming-Liang's style of filmmaking but failed miserably. So many, long, static…

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★★

    Nightmarish, gritty, & irrevocably scarred, just like the city he protects, "The Batman" is a brooding force of vengeance, pain, and anger!

    A dark, detective noir, that remarkably pays homage to the films that paved the way for The Riddler's inventive and bleak character arc. And it does so in a way that's respectful to the films it honours, all while staying completely original, only drawing from such film lore in order to expand and revitalise the formula. There are no…