Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Coralie Fargeat, director of the brilliantly violent bloodfest "Revenge", administers another cinematic tour-de-force (or tour-de-formity, would be more relevant 🤣).

  A popular TV aerobics beauty who unceremoniously gets fired on her 50th birthday is offered, through a secretly run laboratory, a chance to better herself, with a pioneering new serum known only as The Substance. A enticing proposition of body corrupting proportions......

  Poignant, disturbing, and very gory, but often ludicrously funny. The finale is spectacularly bonkers! A visceral indictment of…

• 

  Dressed to Kill 1980

  ★★★★½ Added

  Tonight's choice.

  Masterfully shot and intricately written by Brian De Palma. An engaging and suspenseful erotic psychological thriller and murder mystery.

  Echoing Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", and with influences of Dario Argento, this oozes style with a heady mix of eroticism and bouts of shocking bloody violence. Essentially De Palma doing "Giallo" cinema.

  Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keigh Gordon and Dennis Franz all give memorable performances, grounding the heightened reality of the unfolding drama.

  Pino Donaggio returns as composer,…

Popular reviews

• 

  Legend 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2024 1

  Heard mixed reactions for this and I can understand why.

  
  First and foremost I really enjoyed this, as historically asinine as it is.

  Written and directed by Brian Helgeland; delivering a witty and somewhat over the top and often cartoonish take on the legend of London gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray.

  It's a rather glitzy and glamorous version of events, which by all accounts is the polar opposite of the actual happenings in this particular chapter in history.

  Sporadic bouts…

• 

  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  This is a gothic masterpiece of vampiric proportions.

  From the jolt-inducing opening, to the nerve shattering finale, this is visceral horror cinema, at its damned finest.

  Egger's propensity for intricate detailing; from the period production design, the costumes, to the chilling photography, is handled with ice cold precision. It makes for a beautiful, yet unsettling and ominously bleak aesthetic.

  The sheer oppressive atmosphere is matched only by it's biting intensity. It clenches with ferocious indomitability and doesn't let go.

  The…