Favorite films

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  Not in My Neighbourhood 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2024

  An excellent and engaging tri-continental tale of how communities in Cape Town, New York and Sao Paulo are mobilising against their communities being gentrified to serve white capitalistic and neo-colonial agendas. An inspiring account of activism spanning across the globe in three cities who share such similar stories of oppression, land dispossession, and forced removals despite being so geographically separated. It's sinister to realise how systems of socio-economic oppression and racism have endured for so many centuries through evolving and…

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  Closer 2004

  ★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2024

  Based on Patrick Marber's award-winning play of the same name, 'Closer' is essentially a story about love, lies, romance and deception following the lies of two couples whose relationships implode as they initiate affairs with each other behind each other's backs. The title invites us to examine more closely and carefully the pretences, facades and the seemingly stable bridges we have built with those whom we think we love, and offers a meditation on how we as humans will always…

Popular reviews

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Jun 2023

  This is 100% going to be one of my favourite films of the year. The first Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film was mind-blowing and very deserving of its Academy Award win for its amazing story and of course the pioneering and revolutionary animation style which simultaneously feels like a series of moving paintings and a comic book unfolding in brilliant colours, shapes, lights and sounds in front of us. This film continued its kaleidoscopic animation style while pushing it to…

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  Knock at the Cabin 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Feb 2023

  M. Night Shyamalan is the ultimate pendulum of a filmmaker. For better and for worse, he is one of the most inconsistent filmmakers I've ever seen. He can craft some truly amazing films like The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Split, but then also crank out some mediocre to outright awful cinema such as The Happening, After Earth, Old, and the infamous The Last Airbender. One thing that can be said about him is that all of his films are generally…