Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Dominion 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2022

  To be a true once-carnivore vegan is to face the guilt of the suffering directly caused by your short-lived cravings. It's to come to terms with the life you have left behind and to vow to protect, and encourage the protection of, the species who were once exploited, violated, enslaved, tortured and mercilessly killed for yours and others' burgers, bacon sandwiches, omelettes, four-cheese pizzas, yoghurts, lattes, belts, sofas, jumpers, coats and entertainment.

  It is a burden that I still carry,…

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  One Summer on Earth 2022

  Watched 01 May 2022 7

  Finally, after a year of hard work, not much blood, a little bit of sweat and many tears, One Summer on Earth has been (and is being) shared.

  It has been such a strange process, starting with a mental breakdown and ending with one of the best days of my life - sitting in the cinema surrounded by my parents, my partner, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends, parents of friends, colleagues, ex-colleagues, ex-teachers and so many others who had all gathered…

Recent reviews

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  Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Oct 2023

  A gardener demonstrates that plants move, a young specimen housed cosily in a greenhouse soon to be tainted with tragedy. The whole grounds of the school where the greenhouse is situated is tainted, soaked even, in tragedy. As young girls suffer the woes of conformity, their seniors bustle about, their lives saturated by the worries of money, sex, class and academia. And as they move hurriedly, nobody pays attention to the plant that moves. 

  Hanging rock breathes. An ominous groan…

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  Hunger 2008

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Sep 2023

  Sickening. I’m left devastated - violated - by the depictions of police violence and political oppression that barely scratches the surface of the erasure of liberty that has gradually increased since the events that this film turns into narrative. It is timely and all-important to place these figures centre-stage, to tell these truths about those who fight for the right to exist under their own governance. It is important to move past terms like ‘misery-porn’ that are attached to films like these. Hunger is the truth, this is essential.

Popular reviews

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  Eraserhead 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Mar 2021 4

  A sweet little film for a sweet afternoon.

  I always tell myself 'oh, yeah, I think I have some kind of an idea about what's going on' and then remember a scene I had forgotten that just ruins my theory. That's why I love it with all my heart. Does a film need to actually say something? Does it need to do anything? Why does it have to make sense? A reminder of this every so often is fantastic, especially if that reminder gives me the same morbid enchantment David Lynch manages to put into every one of his films, long or short.

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  The Shining 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Mar 2021 3

  What? WHAAT?

  Story time:
  The first time I watched this was at the beginning of summer in 2019. Very late to the party, I know. I hated it. I hated it with a passion. I had just finished the book, which I loved, and anyone who has read it will know that the two works are significantly different. I think, first time around, I hated it because I felt it thoughtlessly massacred the book.

  Before going to see Doctor Sleep…