Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dressed to Kill 1980

  Watched 05 May 2023

  Never forget: there’s no media object that weighs as heavily on De Palma’s filmography as the Zapruder film.

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  Resident Evil: Apocalypse 2004

  Rewatched 29 Apr 2023

  The SyFy channel entry. Has its moments but Johannes did it better and the upskirting shot in the first 20 mins is pretty horrible. On a related note: let me direct the Metal Gear Solid movie, I’d do a great job.

Popular reviews

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  Unstoppable 2010

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  An alternative history of cinema, or an origin story, or a eulogy, or a blueprint. All of them flying on the 35mm Y-axis to the train’s X, a literal criss-cross of modernist themes of dying labour multiplied by technology actually and cosmically speeding into the future. The one thing the tool was made for reshaped into its weaponised self, and so the same tool must be inverted: slow down, it’s all too fast. Another two years and he would be…

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  Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022

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  The kind of minimal, hits-like-a-tonne-of-bricks visual storytelling the silents thrived off, a dozen or more compositions, focus choices, angles, movements (the digitised kind mostly) that are like “yeah sure of course why didn’t anyone else think of that!” Racking focus to look at particles of dust in the foreground - Jesus Christ! The romanticism’s well-wrought, soulful, genuinely tender, but I also like that it’s consciously one part of many, of eternities’ worth of physics, poems, music, fashion, desires. I had…

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