Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Parenthood 1989

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 06 Jan 2025

  A charmingly messy, honest film, which impressively balances screentime between the members of an extended family as they each struggle with their role as parents (or in some cases, become parents for the first time).

  It's a star-studded cast, but fills grounded and authentic - the set designers for this film deserve a lot of credit, because each character's home has a lot of personality and feels very true to its time and setting.

  A top-tier comfort film, in my opinion.

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  Amadeus 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  An amazing fable, loosely woven from history into something mythic. Iconic visually, and befitting of Mozart's music.

  Amazing performances, costuming, set design, and a well-crafted, powerful story.

Popular reviews

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  Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Nov 2024

  This fantastic film really showed me a different side of Van Gogh and his work, and some paintings I wasn't familiar with.

  The exhibition displayed the paintings beautifully, helping to illuminate the often underdiscussed thoughtfulness and emotional intelligence of Van Gogh, as well as his ever-evolving, vibrant, and interesting painting technique.

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  Vulvina Queen of Ecstasy 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  It's hard to tackle subjects like this beautifully. Extreme violence, murder, and as the title suggests, explicit erotica.

  But beautiful this film is. It FEELS tangibly like artwork, and an exploration of the symbiosis between death and eroticism.

  What's also interesting is the fact that it slowly put me into the headspace of the beautiful but tyrannical queen - the first deaths carried a sense of real gravity, but as the short progressed (and ironically, the kills became more numerous…