Favorite films

Recent activity

• 

  ★★★

• 

  ★★★★

• 

  ★★★★

• 

  ★★★½

Recent reviews

• 

  The Beast with Five Fingers 1946

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2023

  This movie ehm… never quite grabbed me by the throat as it could have. Saved by the great Peter Lorre and some truly terrifying special effects (and that chiaroscuro!), bungled by odd plot holes and booh--itsa--ghost-a! puns. Do watch it for the former on a dark, windy night.

• 

  The Ghost 1982

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2023

  Irony and blasphemy and the foreboding ghost of Tomas Katz.

Popular reviews

• 

  Alucarda 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2014 3

  Ken Russell directs Heavenly Creatures with set design by Peter Greenaway and nuns provided by Coil. An 8/10.

• 

  Windows 1975

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2015

  "I had been appalled and fascinated by the statistics coming out of South Africa - political prisoners pushed out of windows, with fatuous excuses like they slipped on a bar of soap, they thought it was the door, etc. I built that into a fiction, trying to find all the possible reasons why anybody might fall out of a window, and compressed it into 3 1/2 minutes and set these appalling facts up against a very idyllic landscape in order…