TomKibby

TomKibby

Favorite films

  • Titane
  • The Babadook
  • The Substance
  • Martyrs

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  • The Shrouds

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Memories of Murder

    ★★½

  • Parasite

    ★★★★★

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  • The Shrouds

    The Shrouds

    ★★★★

    Another odd one by Cronenberg. Really great though, Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce were all fantastic.

    This won’t be for everyone, it’s got a coldness to it that will no doubt turn people off, but it’s a starkly affecting film.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Much like his previous film ‘Parasite’, Bong-Joon Ho’s new film ‘Mickey 17’ rests upon some very noticeable digs at capitalism, colonialism, and racism. 

    Struggling businessman Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) signs up to a space colonisation programme as an ‘expendable’, where he is killed, then duplicated via experimental human-cloning technology. However, events soon turn awry when his 17th iteration fails to die, and is left in a nightmare scenario with his aggressive 18th iteration.

    Along the way, he begins a relationship…

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★½

    I’ve never seen horror done in such an aggressively visceral way. 

    I struggled with this film when I watched it in cinemas, with the sound design, sound level, and gore in particular pushing me to my limit, to the point where I had to leave.

    Watching on a laptop was a much less overwhelming experience, and much more enjoyable (thanks, Internet!).

    Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley both put in fantastic performances in a Jekyll and Hyde-esque cautionary tale, concerning a…

  • MadS

    MadS

    ★★★½

    That was SO tense. Really fantastic performances, and the ease with which the story progresses is really quite impressive.

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