Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Super Fly 1972

  Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Zooming in on Priest’s face as he delivers his final speech — now that was …

  
  
  

  And the music, that photo montage and final ‘showdown’ — are just …

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  Us 2019

  ★★★ Rewatched 23 Apr 2020

  Need to edit this later. But f*ck it I’m posting this because US is the greatest cinematic achievement since Duck Soup’s Mirror scene. 

  
  Verdict at outset: US is/are the Higgs Boson. Boson waves, Higgs fields.

  I needn’t ever revisit again. I enjoyed the film slightly the first time. I liked reading about it more so. The DP directing and cinematography were redly n shit. You know— the ingenious symbolism, motifs (in various structured studied and layered like a 4 dimensional…

Popular reviews

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  mother! 2017

  ★ Rewatched 20 Apr 2020

  O Bugger Off

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Apr 2020

  ‘Those 30 cans of pineapple had left me feeling queazy, so I went to a bar. I’d heard alcohol can settle the stomach.’ 

  Cut to: Bathroom urinal. Pukes.
  Cut to: Bar. 
  ‘Are you okay?’
  ‘Fine. Another double.’ 
  Later at bar. Glasses stacked. One topped above the others. 
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  ‘There’s a song called “Love Dies at Dawn.” That’s how I feel now. What can I do to forget May? I tell myself I’ll fall in love with the first woman who…