Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Vibrator 2003

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Jun 2023

  I love the creativity that came from the development of hand-held digital cameras. The chance to have a small camera that could also capture low light easily (albeit low-quality though) meant directors could approach shots, narratives, and environments in new ways. Vibrator is a prime example of this, with most of the film taking place in a truck, the camera is able to traverse the restricted space beautifully, keeping the viewer in the cabin for most of the film. It…

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  Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground 1994

  ★★★ Watched 29 May 2023

  Although the branding of this makes it appear to be a pink film, it’s more of a straight up V cinema exploitation film.

  This is like classic V-cinema but directed in the most boring way possible. Move the camera my guy. It had everything that makes v-cinema great but it was just played so straight. Highlights perfectly how V-cinema was really elevated by the people behind the camera, yeah you can have all the tropes expected but it took someone…

Popular reviews

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  A.I. Mama 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Oct 2020

  If someone told me this was an unseen short from Tsukamoto or Fukui I’d believe them, and the fact that it isn’t, shows the amount of love and care that has gone into it. The detail to replicating that era of cyberpunk work is amazing, with enough character to still be its own work.

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  Rubber's Lover 1996

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Apr 2020

  Still an unreal test of a viewer. The cyberpunk blueprint is torn apart as the film plunges into the genre with a relentless aggression. The film is about experimentation but finds normality in being a formal experiment of the very medium it exists within. Every part of this film is tiring as it exhausts you mentally with it’s unrelenting presentation. A true marvel of cinema.