Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Cure 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Jul 2024

  to reduce it to its most basic function, the human mind acts as an antenna; signal transmitter and signal receiver. an access point for the flow of information into ourselves, just as the eyes are the window to the soul, the mind is a window to the being, an amalgamation of the endless stream of stimuli it is exposed to throughout the our lifespan. encoded within this stimuli are energies of various points of origin, some material, traceable in straight…

Recent reviews

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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Jan 2025

  don't turn away from love

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  Lady Blue Shanghai 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  feels right at home alongside the best of Lynch's digital era, a period that's incredibly distinctive in its own right, looser, the crunchy textures somehow enhancing the sinister, dreamy haze that permeates through his work

  in his use of lower grade, readily available equipment, his worlds take on a grounded quality, fixing them a shade closer to our own than those that exist within the chemical borders of celluloid that naturally evoke a link to Hollywood, yet simultaneously distancing themselves…

Popular reviews

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  Halloween Kills 2021

  ★ Watched 17 Oct 2021

  for a film so proudly jerking itself off for being a Halloween movie it's honestly impressive how little it feels like one

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jul 2024

  a relentless quiet dread that smoulders around the periphery, a sustained control over the flow of information, slowly unraveling from procedural to black magic conspiracy. there's something so compelling to me how classically Perkins plays it with regards to the mythology of his work; there's no need to create a monster when the ultimate embodiment of evil is readily available: the Devil is at work within his frames, evoking an older, primordial horror grounded within our cultural canon. he steps…