Toby H

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Unashamed aesthetic merchant.
There's a 50:50 chance I'll be thinking about Wong Kar-wai at any one time.

Favorite films

  • Chungking Express
  • The Florida Project
  • Still Walking
  • How to Have Sex

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  • Flow

    ★★

  • One of Them Days

    ★½

  • Interview with the Vampire

    ★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★

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  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    "Try anything you're cancelled bro"

    Someone wrote that. Someone else read it. They okayed it. So someone else had to read it again. In front of a camera. For the world to see. I hope he was paid handsomely.

    I should probably let this slide (but I won't). It's cleanly produced (it's Netflix, what do you expect). And I don't think it's that bad an immature teenage horror film. It is however an awful Texas Chainsaw film.

    It butchers (pun…

  • After Hours

    After Hours

    ★★★★★

    To describe After Hours is to even attempt to capture the feeling of conspiring forces, the feeling of WHY ME which we all default to in our most frustrated hour, the feeling of a simple goal slipping gently away that Scorcese so brilliantly evokes in another personification of the urban landscape.

    You could easily describe this Scorcese triumph as bitter, self pitying and ultimately self-centred as that sense of targeted attack breaks the lead down, but never does this feel…

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  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★

    Me and the cat playing a game of 'meow every time an animal looks under-rendered'

  • One of Them Days

    One of Them Days

    ★½

    Credits go hard.

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  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ½

    That classic indie film thing where it's just a bunch of scenes where nothing happens and there's no througline between them.

    Some will claim it's subtle and mysterious but in reality everything is unmotivated.

  • The Wicker Man

    The Wicker Man

    ½

    Yes, the use of music is a *REALLY* interesting choice but my god is it presented in a story so obvious, dull, shockingly paced, and empty of tension, dread, or fright. Slow and atmospheric horror can be great, but this forgets the latter component.