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Music journalist by day, person who definitely watches too many movies by night, and sometimes also day.

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John Wick: Chapter 4 2023

★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2023 5

"Such is life"
Such a pure love letter to action cinema in all its forms. From the casting (Adkins, Zaror, Sanada and Yen all get varying degrees of time to shine, but they all fucking crush it) to the sheer glee and the constant reinvention of the setpieces, each of which feels like it could be the climax of its own movie. This is everything I wanted from 3 after 2's cliffhanger, down to the fact that this time, it…
Sound of Metal 2019

★★★★½ Watched 19 Apr 2021 1

I’ve been thinking a lot about why I like the music and movies I like. One thing I almost always come back to with regards to my favorite songs is a strong quiet/loud dynamic. When I was younger I exclusively gravitated towards loud songs, but near the end of my teens I discovered there was nothing quite like the thrill I get from a quiet song suddenly being enveloped by noise, or a logorrheic outburst suddenly getting deflated by an…

The Fall of the House of Usher 2023

★★½ Watched 06 Dec 2023

I'm not sure if all the ways I bumped on this are a by-product of me just not being that into Flanagan's thing or that I just kind of hate Peak TV. I would wager it's the latter, but that's only really based on the fact that I really enjoy Doctor Sleep. For most of its eight hours you're just watching endless build-up to its one variably effective horror set piece per episode. Before you get to that, it's a…
Bennie Brat 2011

½ Watched 05 Dec 2023

Treacly traditionalist bullshit, somehow told with the severity of a Ken Loach film, featuring some of the worst musical choreography you're ever going to see and copious shots in which every person on screen is wearing blackface. I don't know why I watched this.