Favorite films

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  The Brood 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME
  KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME

  ouch.
  one of those films that grows in power each time i rewatch it, to a degree where i now consider it one of Cronenberg's best. there's an immediacy to the drama and horror here that you don't really find in a lot of his other body horror works, which often linger on the degeneration and deformation of the human form. here, like the acrimonious seperation of the…

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  Flow 2024

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  gorgeous movie - absolutely deserves the flowers it's getting right now. very refreshing to see an animated feature that trusts the audience to go with it, zero dialogue or explanation for the world we're dropped into, animals that act and express themselves as animals, with a tiny sprinkling of weird fantasy that deepens the reality of what we're shown without spoiling the mystique of it. this was clearly crafted with a lot of love, and you can feel passion crackle…

Popular reviews

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Sep 2021 1

  laura palmer's garden of gethsamene - confronting her brief mortality and dying rather than succumbing to the evil that men do.

  while twin peaks gave us laura palmer through the idealising eyes of smalltown america, fire walk with me shows us the life behind the death - the story of a girl caught between a devastating, traumatic reality and insidious forces beyond her understanding. like the audience, laura knows death is coming, and so spends her final days coming to…

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  The People's Joker 2022

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Feb 2025

  funniest part about seeing this in a theatre in Ireland was coming out and hearing somebody say "who's Lorne Michaels?"
  blessed movie tbh