Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Come to Daddy 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Aug 2019 6

  The lady introducing this at the Melbourne Film Festival said that it was "a gender bending movie". So at some point I was waiting for Elijah Wood to start transitioning until I finally realised she meant to say genre bending.

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  Hereditary 2018

  ★★★★★ Added 3

  I sometimes wonder to myself, can people with photographic memories re-watch movies they've seen at any time they wish? Like just waiting in line somewhere and go "oh I'm just gonna close my eyes and re-watch Hereditary, the greatest horror movie of the 21st century"
  Because that would totally be me if I had a photographic memory.

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in an all-time upset that changed the trajectory of the Oscars for years to follow. Five years on, the Korean filmmaker has just now cashed the blank cheque that winning an award like that can get you. But those who were first exposed to Bong through his award-winning, gloriously earnest mystery thriller might find themselves scratching their heads at this satirical creature feature. But in reality, one look at…

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  Rush Hour 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Classic.

Popular reviews

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  Us 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2019

  I carefully went into “Us” with no preconceived determinations on if the film was going to be good or not. Peele’s first feature film “Get Out” is all you have to go from on whether you can put you faith in him to show you an entertaining and meaningful story or make you sit through a trashy thriller. After sitting through the film in the cinema, I can definitely say that Peele knows what he is doing and Get Out…

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  1917 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2020

  It's a no brainer that a Roger Deakins "one take" war movie was going to spark the interest of pretty much everybody, it's such a tempting pleasure. But none the less I still had my concerns with how the film was going to play out, would the continual shot detract from any other aspects of the film? For me, the short answer is no. In fact, I do believe that this effect improved certain areas of it (while slightly hurting…