Tom Spoors

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the master of bad taste

Favorite films

  • 12 Angry Men
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Jurassic Park
  • Citizen Kane

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  • Dante's Inferno

    ★★★★

  • Saturday Night

    ★★★

  • Boat Leaving the Port

  • How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    ★★★★½

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  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★★

    Miyazaki has been thinking about death a lot. That much is obvious from the first few minutes of THE BOY AND THE HERON, but for so much of the film, I was unsure exactly what the master filmmaker was trying to say about the matter. Suddenly though, as the film approached its end, everything clicked and seemingly became clear. Hayao Miyazaki is absolutely terrified of dying.

    In some ways, THE BOY AND THE HERON feels like a desperate plea from…

  • Merry Little Batman

    Merry Little Batman

    ★★★

    Winter might just be my least favourite time of the year. It’s cold, dark and, as someone with the immune system of a dying goat, I get ill a lot. Due to this, over the years I’ve developed quite a strong love for Christmas, a holiday that, for me, has always been filled with so much warmth that it’s single-handedly managed to make my winters so much easier to get through. All the illnesses feel worth it when I know…

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  • Presence

    Presence

    ★★★

    Needed more Chris Sullivan and less school shooter boyfriend.

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★★

    Genuinely feels like the next step forward for cinema. The most groundbreaking, major film to come out in a long, long time.

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  • Five Nights at Freddy's

    Five Nights at Freddy's

    The most boring version of this possible. How are you gonna take a pretty sick premise for a horror film and turn it into a 2-hour snoozefest about this one guy who's obsessed with dreams? The animatronics (which admittedly look great) are barely in this and when they are, they're not even scary! At one point the main guy says "I barely talk about my brother" and I wanted to strangle him because it's literally all he went on about for the last hour and a bit. Just so, so dull.

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    This movie was so made for me. The most creative, awe-inspiring, beautiful, tearjerking, heartfelt, brilliantly made film I've seen in ages. Modern cinema is saved.