Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Talk to Me 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Nov 2023

  Wanted to hate this because the directors are two of the most unbearable people that I’ve ever had the displeasure of hearing. However, Talk to me kinda rips and is probably the best horror film of the year.

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  Two Lovers 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Oct 2023

  James Gray got me feeling existential dread and guilt at 1am in the morning.

Popular reviews

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Jun 2020 1

  In 1995, Michael Mann brought a feature-length adaptation of his failed TV pilot “LA takedown” to the big screen. While Mann was already an acclaimed director with films like “Manhunter” and the French/Indian war epic “The last of the Mohicans”, it would be Heat that would come to have the biggest impact on his career as well as serving as an infinitely unquantifiable influence on future filmmakers such as Villanueve, Fincher and Nolan working within the crime genre. Heat is…

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jul 2020

  Ridley Scott’s blade runner (whatever cut you watch) is perhaps one of the most seminal and influential pieces of science fiction cinema. The film is a unique beast to me as I’ve always viewed it as a masterpiece despite that fact that it is imperfect. I am of the belief that a film can always be identified as successful by how well it overcomes it’s flaws. Thus, if Blade Runner is the flawed masterpiece I am convinced that Blade Runner…