Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Under the Skin 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2023

  some really masterful shots but left out so many of the complexities and detail from the book. one of my favourite scar Jo performances as 'woman who falls over'. interesting shift between how the book has her as a poorly disguised human and here it's Scarlett Johansson, there is something uncanny about how beautiful she is and the film really plays on that

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  Manderlay 2005

  ½ Watched 17 Sep 2022

  awaiting the day that Twitter finds out that this film exists and every actor involved gets rightfully hung drawn and quartered. racist racist racist, a film which boldly claims slavery may have been a choice. fucks sake.

Popular reviews

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  Romantic Comedy 2019

  ★½ Watched 23 May 2020

  What this documentary sets out to do is critique the Romantic Comedy genre from a feminist perspective. It isn't focused enough for that, and struggles around what it tries to say. All we know, as the audience, is the director enjoys rom-coms, but they are problematic, and it doesn't offer much information besides that.
  This isn't a documentary so much as it is a series of clips, it is similar in style to film reviews on YouTube and even then…

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2021

  potentially should be writing a more serious review but i have changed my take on Timothée; he is sexy.