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Favorite films

  • Scream
  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  • Heat
  • Surf's Up

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  • Obsession

    ★★★★★

  • They Will Kill You

    ★★★½

  • Sexy Beast

    ★★★★

  • The Drama

    ★★★★

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Obsession
★★★★★ Watched

A film Ive had to sit with before even attempting to write about it. Not because I needed to reevaluate my thoughts, but because I genuinely had to fully digest what I’d just witnessed. This is such a deeply mean spirited, unsettling film one that manages to create a level of dread and discomfort that I honestly can’t remember feeling this intensely before.

Curry Barker’s direction feels incredibly controlled, with perfect editing, subtle blocking, and some genuinely unnerving lighting choices.…

They Will Kill You
★★★½ Watched

What spirals off as a premise you’ve seen a million times actually gets into the action way quicker than expected, which helps set a really fast, chaotic pace.

It’s set almost entirely in this isolated high-rise that slowly reveals itself as a satanic cult-run trap, and the film makes good use of that confined, maze-like structure during its action set pieces. The cinematography leans into that nicely, creating some really cool and over-top shots definitely get the kill bill comparisons,…

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
★★★★½ Watched

Holy shit Inject this franchise into my fucking veins!! 

The Bone Temple is another reminder of just how boldly original and endlessly fascinating this franchise can be. It proves yet again that the zombie genre still has astonishing range when you stop treating the undead as the focus and instead use them as the backdrop for exploring the deepest, strangest corners of humanity. There are so many layers here spiritual, psychological, moral each one begging to be unpacked.

Ralph Fiennes…

One Battle After Another
★★★★★ Watched

Holy shit, this was nothing short of a cinematic gut punch. It’s a father–daughter thriller that manages to be both devastatingly powerful and laugh-out-loud funny, threading the line between raw emotion and absurd humour with effortless precision.

From the very first frame, Anderson’s direction feels alive. The film is visually arresting, with standout, inventive shots that carry a raw, almost unpolished energy cinema stripped down to its bones, yet bursting with style. It feels intimate and sprawling at the same…

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