Recent reviews

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  Phantom of the Paradise 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2025

  Took me so long to finally watch this film and now I want to watch it again and again. I love how each character looks cartoonish, and the humor and camp of the film stay strong throughout.

  I don’t have much else to say at this point but I can’t wait to see it again :) One of my new favorites !

  “Can’t you feel the vibes in your own house!?”

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  Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  Can’t quite make up my mind about this film. Robert Egger’s Nosferatu is undoubtedly technically superior, but so many moments in Herzog’s version really did it for me more than the 2024 adaptation. 
  Klaus Kinski is genuinely creepy as Nosferatu, Jonathan absolutely loves his wife and the tragedy of him losing his memory hurts Lucy so viscerally.. their dynamic and relationship makes their modern counterparts seem almost one sided. 
  At times it can be overly theatrical, comedic, and far too many rats were used in some scenes.
  But overall I really liked Herzog’s whimsical adaptation of Nosferatu!

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  “In heathen times you might have been a Great Priestess of Isis. Yet, in this strange and modern world your purpose is of greater worth.”

  Now having seen Herzog’s adaptation, as well as having initially thought this after my viewing of Robert Egger’s Nosferatu, I feel as though this film missed out on making Ellen and Thomas feel truly in love with each other. Compared to Herzog’s version, there is more of a love triangle at play here, though it…

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  Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Doug Walker was embarrassingly wrong about this film. 
  I especially liked the hammers used to depict the fascist crowd- the shiny silver evokes the image of pale, shaved, sweaty heads. Literal “tools” of destruction. 

  5/5 for having seen the nostalgiacritc version before this.

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