Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Red Rooms 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Jan 2025

  Parasitic and parasocial, Red Rooms is a bleak and gnarly descent into voyeuristic obsession. Truly unnerving, capturing the unknowability of evil. 

  Chaotic, intractable, and incapable of looking away. Feeling unwell.

  Anatomy of a …?

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Dec 2024

  Of walking a fine line between innocent joy, love and transactional fulfillment. Gritty and silly - sad, abstruse and electric. Charged with that flashy yet genuine disposability that lures you in to break you open. Sean Baker hits the mark again.

  Posh Victoria.
  Mundane Euphoria.

Recent reviews

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  The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  Finally, my Lanthimos gap caught up with me.

  It trapped me in a slow, surreal nightmare soaked in stiff dialog, clinical lighting and a camera that drifts like an intruder. Calculated and methodical, it plants its creeping sense of inevitability, moving toward a dawning fate.

  It's a movie like a faint pain you can't quite explain. It sits among his other films that I hold dear.

  (Except for The Favorite, which is just plain obnoxious.)

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  Kneecap 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  This hit me like a brick to the face. I loved how chaotic and unapologetically loud this dark and funny portrait of rebellion, culture and the absurdities of modern Belfast was. Full of sharp dialogue, wild energy and still some gentle moments to contemplate.

  A punk anthem. A ride.

Popular reviews

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  The Fallout 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2022

  What the hell, Megan Park. That's your debut?

  You had me bawling and smiling through those moments. Tackling trauma in such an uplifting way without romanticising it. Light-hearted while heavy and not afraid to embrace both. It made me feel so much. Made me laugh, cry, feel scared, feel thrilled, smile. And understand so much. Touching those nuances what it means or not means to heal, or to handle.

  Beauty in the slightest movements. Stabbed my heart deep in how it showed the relationships, family, friendships. Real, raw.

  Jenna Ortega and Lumi Pollack.
  Megan Park.

  I'm having a really hard time moving on.

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2022 3

  Overly underwhelming. Made for 38 year-olds that long to be 20. A perception of cute and quirky that wants to be loved, not to expose. Featuring a runtime that even bores its fans, misogyny and racist jokes - but only slightly so we can play them off as self-aware while being the same old, same old.

  A fine movie for the 90s, today just obsolete - but it will give many people the warm feeling of their own self-exaltation of adolescence.

  Celebrated by arthouse lovers.
  38 year-olds.
  (I'm unfair - but yes)