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  • Cure
  • The Straight Story
  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
  • Paddington 2

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  • The Way Way Back

    ★★★½

  • mother!

    ★★★★½

  • Hereditary

    ★★★★½

  • Hero

    ★★★

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  • The Way Way Back

    The Way Way Back

    ★★★½

    My friend owns and wears (almost exclusively) button-up shirts. He's a bit of a nerdy guy. He lived with his mum. He rode a 'girl's' bike when he was a kid that was a gift from his dad who was a used car salesman.

    His name is Duncan. He watched this movie with us tonight. It was his choice. He'd seen it before and forgotten these things.

    Life is a trip

  • mother!

    mother!

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    A deeply held fear I have, having invested a lot of time into understanding myself and my past, is that, were I to become a father, I would somehow fuck things up. Perhaps I'd not be present enough. Maybe I'm not emotionally mature enough to foster a healthy attachment. Will my parenting style cause lifelong repercussions? How do I protect them from the likes of violence, trauma, bullying or addiction? How do I let go once they become a teenager…

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  • Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane

    ★★★★★

    Sympathy For Mr Kane

    Everything that could be said has been said and said to death - including this sentence - about Citizen Kane.

    I've never had such high expectations for a film and then had my expectations somehow exceeded. For me this sets a new standard for what films are, were and could have been if history had played out a little differently at the time for this film that I watched this evening at 28 years old from…

  • Hereditary

    Hereditary

    ★★★★½

    I called Ari Aster's other film, Midsommar, the peak of the horror genre when I'd finished watching it a few weeks ago.

    I've just finished with Hereditary and I'm definitely feeling it's effects.

    Hereditary made me audibly and almost involuntary exclaim "Oh my god" on more than one occasion.

    This film is up there with some of the most psychologically unnerving I've ever seen. It's bleak, it made me genuinely uncomfortable, it caused an internal deliberation within myself about the…