Aaron McCombe

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Favorite films

  • Princess Mononoke
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Alien

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  • Bullet in the Head

  • Backrooms

  • From Russia with Love

    ★★★½

  • Tremors

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

It's hard to know Where to start with this film, but let's start at the beginning...

Miles Morales was introduced into the Marvel Comics Ultimate Universe in 2011 when I was 10. At an even younger age, when I was first introduced to Spider-Man through the Raimi films, I instantly became a fan, of a story not dissimilar to most people my age. But it was around age 11 that I discovered Marvell comics and Spider-Man comics, and by 12…

Yojimbo
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Saw this last night at the Cameo in Edinburgh such a good experience, wrote about the film for my major project which got me my degree. Going to include that peice as the review even though it includes more than just Yojimbo. But I'm very proud of the price as it dissects stories across cultures and similarities in narratives.

Introduction
Narratives have been told in many forms; from books, films, music, our perspective of the world revolves around the many…

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Bullet in the Head
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My new favourite discovery this year has been John Woo's 90s Hong Kong films. Tony Leung was already one of my favourite actors but he keeps adding performances to bolster my feelings towards him.

Backrooms
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This happened to my buddy Charlie in Ocean Terminal at 2:30am

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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
★★ Watched

This was bad. Felt like 3 episodes of the show stitched together. First hour could have been cut, which would have made a decent 1 hour 30 adventure film, but this is just bloated with a maybe good episode in there. It just visually looks like cement, with one painterly shot in there, Phil Tippet puppetry as well, but there's no commitment to anything visually, central framing and bland two shots with the background empty and out of focus. The…