20 / Award-winning Filmmaker
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
Manhattan 1979
It’s a little strange watching Manhattan as a teenager. The beauty of Mariel Hemingway is almost a faux pas for the rest of the cast but for me, it’s a healthy age gap. Only until next week. I’m not sure where Tracy gets her education in emotional maturity either because they don’t teach that in high school and she’s certainly not learning it from the adults around her. They coincidentally act like teenagers - buying cars they don’t need or…
-
Tokyo Story 1953
I feel that the professor of film at the University of Texas in Austin, Charles Ramírez Berg, put it most succinctly in his description of Tokyo Story -
“As you watch, it seems nothing is happening. When it’s over you realise you’ve just seen an encyclopaedia of the human condition”
It is hence interesting that Ozu’s popularity in the West came about upon the publication of Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film; with the director not experiencing the same international exposure…
Recent reviews
More-
-
Dune: Part Two 2024
Almost certainly the Sci-Fi blockbuster movie event of my youth that I’ll tell my kids about.
“Lead them to paradise”
Popular reviews
More-
-
The Batman 2022
“Don’t throw your life away”
”Don’t worry honey, I’ve got nine”The Bat, the Cat and the Rat. Matt Reeves’ The Batman is less about a caped crusader, and more about the world’s greatest detective; confronting the sheer brains of the iconic character, rather than the brawn. As a neo-noir, The Batman relishes in the intricacies of the genre; yes, Pattison’s dark knight is a moody cynic who would rather inflict pain on the working class than go to therapy,…