Favorite films

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  La Jetée 1962

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  Watched this today with a class of eager Film Studies Students. I love this film. Fascinating and mind blowing that this was pieced together by Marker in the 1960’s. The ideas and themes explored are so brilliant! A work of art!!

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I don’t claim to be an expert on architecture or Brutalism as a movement, but taking the National Theatre, there is something oppressive and harsh about its appearance. Makes total sense then to see the life of Tóth and how his oppression, pain and very existence is injected into his work. Adrian Brody is superb, as is Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones and the whole cast. Brady Corbet has constructed a phenomenal, theatrical masterpiece - the intermission is a perfect moment and you really sense that end of Act One build up to it!!

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  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2024

  Enjoyed this! A Brilliantly directed (from George Miller), high octane extension to the Mad Max world… but with a difference. Anya Taylor Joy is ace as Furiosa and the relationship between her and Burke’s Praetorian Jack is not clichéd at all. Always refreshing to see strong, resilient and revengeful women doing the killing and the saving.

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  Road House 2024

  ★★½ Watched 29 Mar 2024 1

  It was enjoyable and Jake Gyllenhaal is as ever, top notch. The film is what it is - ticks a box and delivers a relatively formulaic storyline with inoffensive dialogue. Connor McGregor makes his debut acting appearance and personally, I think it might be best if that was that. It would have been difficult to go far wrong with his character, but believe me, he was treading a fine line throughout.

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