Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  28 Days Later 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025 1

  This is the best interpretation of a zombie outbreak that I’ve seen thus far. Outside of the flood in Halo but thats a whole different scale/level. 

  Honestly perfect, high stakes, wildly aggressive zombies with no bs, no cure or cheatcode, lots of moral ambiguity, home video-esque camera work. Bloody phenomenal

  Even costume design man, Selena’s brown leather trench was killer!!!!!! Oh and boy the soundtrack/sound design.

  Nah this was just brilliant. Cillian Murphy tryna hunt down Christopher Eccleston, what more could a young brit want. 

  Danny Boyle is 2 for 2

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  Becoming Led Zeppelin 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Best music doc I’ve seen. Worked out so perfectly, my dad’s a big Zep fan and he put me on from early but it was a few weekends ago that I decided to run Zep 1 front to back, after being inspired by that debut performance footage (which magnificently features in the doc) and man oh man what an album

  After conversations w pops and finding out Jimmy Page produced the records it took my respect for him to a…

Popular reviews

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  Picnic 1996

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2021

  A kiss from a dark winged angel...a picnic to witness the end of the world. 

  The walls that confine most became their only freedom. We peer into an adventure on the edge between warped reality and rationale. 

  This film was both endearing and disturbing. The characters themselves having a Child-like innocence but at the same time pasts filled with darkness. 

  Narrative themes like salvation,abuse,innocence,apocalypse all weave into each other. Love this sort of story telling. 
     
   The cinematography was stunning throughout and that final scene. Goodness. 

  [ Bonus points for cool priest man and existential bickering :) ]

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  The Squid and the Whale 2005

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Apr 2021

  Baumbach is defo one of my fave filmmakers. The way he tells stories is just so well controlled. It’s somehow pretentious but authentic at the same time. 

  This film really is a study into the family dynamic. As opposed to Baumbach’s later work marriage story, the focus here is less on the divorce and more on it’s effects. Also we see things play out more from the perspective of the first born son,Walt.

  The performances here are amazing. A pretentious,…