Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Psycho 1960

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025 2

  You think I’m fruity, huh?

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  When the music stops… what then?

  Found this one quite entrancing. The juxtaposition of intimacy and distance is captured wonderfully. Original score does a lot of work here. It’s just on the verge of teetering over into overbearing territory, but straddles the line perfectly. 

  Queer is a queer film; not in its absurdity, but in its occasionally unintuitive pacing and rhythm. Still not completely onboard with how it plays out once they set out on their trip. 

  
  Particularly taken by the supporting performances, Craig was good too.

Popular reviews

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  Silver Haze 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2023

  This movie was a bit of a mess, but I enjoyed it a whole load more than I probably aught to.

  The quieter and more intimate moments of fragility is where the film is at its strongest. These are sadly  somewhat lost in the contrivances of a traditional drama, and the need for tension.

  There is also way too much going on here, where we are introduced to five more storylines than we realistically have the time to delve into. It feels like a mini series that unsuccessfully has been condensed into a 2 hour film.

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  WILL 2023

  ★★ Watched 26 Sep 2023

  War films are always among the most difficult to assign a star rating. As someone whose immediate impression tends to be skewed by a film’s emotional toll, I tend to leave a viewing feeling very strongly one way or another.

  When the subject matter is this serious, it feels really off-putting when the graphic content being shown is employed to generate a response rather than to enhance the narrative. 

  Although I’m a big fan of  focusing in on a personable figure,…