Milton

Milton

Film is my religion • Cinema is my happy place

Favorite films

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Aftersun

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  • This Is Where I Leave You

    ★★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • Vote Gavin Lyle

  • Hamnet

    ★★★½

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This Is Where I Leave You
★★★★½ Liked Watched

I think one of the greatest strengths of this film is that life takes a curve ball at you sometimes and it's okay to not be okay — also the film's joy.
As the end credits roll by, you just feel a new orientation of life. A sweet, charming and comical outlook of our inner lives and the dysfunctionality of a family using the death of a patriarch as an inflection point.
The soundtracks are so well placed, a deserving body of work on it's own. I have to say, it's a comfort watch indeed.

Vote Gavin Lyle
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“People talk a lot about change, progress, new ways of doing things to achieve stability.”
Here, there's an inflection of cultures that results from forced migration which puts into focus what it means to be British in the modern era. It's quite political in the way it handles taxing, policies and community which slips off the rails in most bits. I can't speak much to the narrative here because it's not my reality but it does bring some things to the limelight. I think it's a farce of sorts.

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Aftersun
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Aftersun opens as a memory. A genuine rave of recollection of profound care and love bordering a parent-child relationship. Paul Mescal puts up a tearjerking performance of his career. Frankie Corio also delivers a superb performance. The delicate music soaks you in the emotions that glides gently in each scene.

Calum; an instrument of paternity, an embodiment of parenthood tasked with the care and protection of his child devoured him wholly. At frequent instances,he reassures her of his earnest desire…

Train Dreams
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Train dreams is an intimate, slow portraiture of the regular rhythms of fully lived life. It is rich, robust and so full of life.

The film is potent because the events that take place happen at the cusp of the 20th century. A time of significant cultural, political, social and scientific changes. Its themes of grief, loss and love are very familiar parts of the human experience. I especially admire how nature is utilised as a central character and an…