Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  I wonder in what absurd and comedically gruesome manner I would be killed by the monkey

  (Pathetic Theo James AND Psychotic Theo James could both get it)

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  Bird 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  Don’t you worry… everything will be okay
  
  I really dug this film, it had this inexplicable presence over me that kept me in the whole time; even through the sometimes disjointed narrative - I hate to suggest the director could do no wrong, but that felt intentional, like Bailey wasn’t the most reliable of narrators, and that we were seeing things through her 12 year old perspective, what she believed. The mind creates in order to protect itself.

  The cast were…

Popular reviews

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  Ice Merchants 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Aug 2022 1

  I can't quite describe how beautiful this short is. The animation style feels so homely and familiar in a wonderfully comforting way. The way Gonzalez tells a deep story without dialogue only the skillful use of shots, sequences, and music is really something to be admired. It is devastating but hopeful at the same time

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  Dream Team 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Aug 2024 8

  MIFF 2024
  Film #23

  Weird, experimental, horny, camp, confusing 
  I loved every single second of this!!
  10/10

  I learnt way more about coral than I thought I would?? The silliness just hits
  And somehow watching silhouettes obstruct the projector as people left half way through made the film even better.

  A wonderfully deranged love letter to the crap you see on free to air TV at 2am