Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2022 6

  Pretty much pitch perfect in every conceivable way, from the performances and the direction to the atmosphere and wonderous scoring, though it was the unexpectedly moving ending that suddenly sealed the deal for me as an all time favourite, a denouement of such extraordinary romanticism that I'll happily admit caught me off guard, this light-hearted comedy fantasy with such a daft premise had quietly disarmed all my critical faculties and rendered me a blubbering mess.

  Non-horror ghost stories had already…

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  Platform 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2021 2

  Zhangke has described Platform as a weight on his heart that if he didn't remove he wouldn't be able to do anything else, a film so epic in scope that it couldn't be his feature debut as intended, but instead became a sophomore effort and his magnum opus.

  Spanning a tumultuous decade that begins in 1979, the film follows the lives of a group of young people during China's Cultural Revolution, a generation swept up by changes so drastic that…

Recent reviews

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  The Family Secret 1951

  ★★½ Watched 29 Sep 2023

  Whilst Bogart was in Africa making The African Queen with John Huston and trying to avoid dysentery by exclusively drinking whiskey, his short-lived production company Santana shot this cheap and problematic morality play with a noirish plot about an accidental murder by a young law student and the subsequent cover up by his lawyer father.

  The big problem with this is John Derek, an actor whom Bogart obviously had a lot of faith in to carry the picture, though he's…

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  The Oklahoma Kid 1939

  ★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  I'm not sure what's weirder—seeing Bogart and Cagney in the same film together, seeing two of the most urban of classic Hollywood's stars together in a western, or the fact that neither of them seem especially out of place once you get used to them carrying guns, wearing cowboy hats and riding horses.

  What's also bizarre about The Oklahoma Kid is that it's a B-grade potboiler, hardly the place to unite two of Warner's most bankable stars—well at least Cagney…

Popular reviews

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  Antoine and Colette 1962

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Nov 2017

  Friendzone: New Wave edition.

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  Welcome, or No Trespassing 1964

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jun 2018

  I never would have thought that Elim Klimov, the man behind one of the most horrifying and relentlessly powerful war films, Come and See was making charming satirical comedies twenty years prior.

  I didn't read any reviews on here beforehand, but immediately picked up the Wes Anderson aesthetic and noticed the similarities with Moonrise Kingdom, and seeing that movie mentioned straight away by someone here confirms my suspicions that Anderson has probably seen this and taken inspiration. Klimov's offbeat comedy,…