Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  I loved the use of music and lyrics during the different duets with Joan the lyrics fitting their changing relationship dynamics. The song dusty old dust voicing Dylan’s last goodbye to both Woody and folk music. 

  The film doesn’t over-explain important historical events so you have to understand the context but the overall fear of changing times where technology is challenging creative standards, traditions, existential threats is something we can relate to in 2025.

  I think this film left a lot…

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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 07 Jan 2025

  Honestly Francis has always been a wonderfully creative nutjob. To quote Francis from Sofia’s documentary on Apocalypse now:

  “nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie. A movie that aspires for something really terrific and doesn’t pull it off is shit, is scum and everyone will walk on it as such.”

  “And that’s a filmmakers greatest horror; to be pretentious. So here you are on hand you aspire to really do something. On the other hand you’re not allowed to…

Popular reviews

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  Disconnect 2012

  ★★½ Watched 20 Oct 2022

  This scenario goes through your moms mind whenever she tells you the internet is bad.

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Sep 2021

  Some costumes were boring and uninspiring. Lots of grey concrete. The elite unstoppable soldiers were a big disappointment. The story felt dated, the whole chosen-one trope just doesn’t work for me anymore.

  Good things! Dragonfly spaceships!! 
  Space-Bagpipe-charge!
  Overall Denis knows how to use the medium too convey lots of details in his exposition using only images and sound. Love him for that!
  Seeing it in 3D iMax along side my father still made it a wonderful experience.