Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Annette 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Sep 2021 1

  My favourite theatre theorist, Peter Brook, begins his seminal work 'The Empty Space' with a quote that defines art for me, and informs all my work: "I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space while someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged." This masterpiece does a magnificent job of exploring that beautiful boundary between life and…

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  Pleasure 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2022

  A visceral portrait of LA's underground underbelly - the porn industry, filled with greed and male coercion. Borrowing flavours of The Neon Demon and Nightcrawler, ambitious Bella goes from extreme to competitive extreme, discovering the opposite of pleasure.

  Sofia Kappel is fearless. This is her first movie?! Also the first feature for writer and director Ninja Thyberg. Very excited to see what both make next, at the forefront of boundary-pushing cinema.

  Extremely well written and well filmed, kept me invested through to the end. What happens when you get to where you wanted to be?

Recent reviews

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  Dementia 1955

  ★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Trippy 50s noiry fare that's nice to look at but not too engaging beyond the visuals.

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  Stuart Little 1999

  ★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  Nathan Lane IS a cat.

  Special Features on the Blu-ray are insane.

Popular reviews

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  Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2024

  This movie is a fuckin' beast, and completely threw me off guard because I loved it. A huge story, competently told.

  The fight scenes (and there's a lot of them) are simply gargantuan, with cities becoming a sandpit the toddlers (titans) destroy in their wake. Emblazoned with bold, primary colours and glowing neon, the visuals are a step up from my other favourite in the MonsterVerse, Kong: Skull Island, and are consistent in showing us the full picture of what…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Apr 2022

  Delightfully silly and philosophical at the same time, Everything Everywhere capitalises on the 'multiverse' trend of late, but with a reasonably fresh, contained take.

  This was a great watch at IMAX, and particularly alongside a young audience who adored the humour and overwhelming visuals. I love a tasteful (and relevant) aspect ratio shift during a film, and they were used to tremendous effect here, made bigger on the biggest screen. If they are not carried over onto the 4K /…