Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Landscape for Fire 1972

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Watched at Tate Modern’s Anthony McCall exhibition, the windy audio of the film creates a beautiful soundscape for McCall’s Solid Light films, amazing vibes

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Despite the contemporary of it all, Challengers is a through and through classical Hollywood melodrama. This is what a lot of people are missing, Guadagnino is operating in the likes of Sirk with how he is handling such a steamy and scandalous romance.

  Justin Kuritzkes' script is beautiful the way it juggles the perspectives, just as impressive the second way around. There is a childishness at play here, sex, relationship, tennis, these are all in a way competitive childplay, the…

Popular reviews

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  Cunk on Life 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Dec 2024

  Seeing Diane Morgan in real life talking as Diane Morgan is a bit of a surreal experience, they talked about Diane suggesting keeping her own accent for Cunk which certainly made it funnier, so glad that happened

  From some common sacrilegious jabs to some meditation with Cunk, this works amazing as a TV special. But I do think they should one day actually make a movie out of it, laughing with an entire audience over these jokes was pure joy…

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  The Happiness of the Katakuris 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  “Yo mama beautiful neh” — Richard Sagawa
  
  Having watched this after Douglas Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow, I’ll have to say Takashi Miike’s film has a more positive outlook for the family bond.

  This is an absolute delight, batshit crazy, consistently surprising and just excellent genre exercise that mesh everything in a whole bowl of delicious soba, I want to eat soba.

  Love the stop motion and the musical numbers just come in whenever, a film full of excess that somehow…