Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Jun 2024

  If I had to sum up my opinion on this movie, it would probably be "Mildly interesting.".

  Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was one of the first album I ever really listened and loved, so much so that I own three different versions of this record. As such, seeing how the band tries to figure out the right sound of each song, how the dynamic in the band was, etc. is already interesting. There are a lot of nice recordings of…

• 

  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Feb 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

• 

  Planetes 2003

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2021

  From up here, you can’t see any borders… All you can see is the Earth...

  I went into this expecting a great hard sci-fi with more emphasis on space development and the history behind it.

  Oh boy was I wrong, or at least unprepared for the emotional turmoil some episodes made me go through. While there are allusions to historical figures like Von Braun, and it is indeed fairly grounded in its depiction with how the tech and procedures are…

• 

  Magnetic Rose 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Feb 2020

  Magnetic Rose follows a crew of salvagers in space after they have received a mysterious distress signal from an abondoned ship that was once owned by a famous opera singer.
  To make it short: This is probably the best Anime short film I've ever seen.
  It has a well-paced story surrounding the theme of memories (hence the title of the anthology this movie is part of) with a great twist that is set up very carefully throughout the film.
  The…