NickToth

NickToth

Favorite films

  • Boogie Nights
  • Taxi Driver
  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  • Sorcerer

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  • King of New York

  • Straight Time

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  • Boogie Nights

    Boogie Nights

    My favourite film ever made. No movie makes me feel better or worse. Boogie Nights is simultaneously fun, devastating, thrilling, heart warming, tough, beautiful and hilarious. Every scene is filled with multiple emotions and sometimes a single shot can contain all of them. You often don’t know how to feel. 

    Paul Thomas Anderson (writer/director) breaks down the myth that characters must go through a big change. Each person remains relatively the same throughout the runtime, but the audience feels like…

  • King of New York

    King of New York

    A great genre film. We open with Frank White (Christopher Walken) leaving jail in a limousine, and end with him in the back of a taxi. If you know the rules of a gangster movie, you know where the scenes are heading, but the route to this conclusion is one you cannot foresee.

    One early scene goes from Frank dancing like the love child of Fred Astaire and Elvis Presley, to his second in command, Jimmy (Laurence Fishburne) delivering the…

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  • The Florida Project

    The Florida Project

    When in Florida….

    I would not be in this state if it were not for this film. The profound effect it’s provocative production and costume design had on me when first seeing it can not be overstated. 

    The film is a heartbreaking gut punch from a boxer wearing candy coloured mits.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    A large achievement that doesn’t reach the epic proportion it sets itself up for. 

    It is easy to compare The Brutalist to other grand films which have tackled capitalism in America. Films like Citizen Kane, the first two Godfather films and There Will Be Blood are widely considered some of the greatest of all time. The Brutalist wants to be mentioned in the same breath as these historical achievements. A24 and Bradley Corbet (director) seem intent on naming their film…

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