Rob

Rob

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • My Neighbor Totoro

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  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    ★★★★

  • Bait

    ★★★★

  • Clueless

    ★★★½

  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    ★★★★

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  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    ★★★★

    Must have been a decade or more since I watched this. I think I appreciate it even more now, especially seeing its influence on other works like Evangelion and Final Fantasy VII.

  • Dior and I

    Dior and I

    ★★★½

    Raf Simons is one of the greatest fashion designers of the last 30 years. Watching him as he took the helm of arguably the most famous couture design house, Christian Dior, is thrilling and engaging. The set design for his first collection is breathtaking.

    Raf is a wonderful screen presence, an unassuming, yet immensely stylish looking individual who carefully goes about his work. What makes this film as good as it is are the other people who speak throughout the…

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  • Video Games: The Movie

    Video Games: The Movie

    ½

    Watching this actually turns me off from my favourite art form. The structure is terrible. The narration is phoned in. The talking head sections are obvious, and the choice of guests borderline random. There is better criticism of video games made with Patreon money, eg. the excellent Gaming Historian. The YouTube-hosted buying guides of collectors like Metal Jesus Rocks give you a better sense of the history of a console than a *documentary on the subject*. Then there's professionally made…

  • PERSONA3 THE MOVIE #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream

    PERSONA3 THE MOVIE #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream

    ★★½

    Decent anime film, only really makes sense if you have played the game though.

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