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Favorite films

  • The Last Days of Disco
  • Gang of Four
  • The Loss of Sexual Innocence
  • The Heartbreak Kid

All
  • Around a Small Mountain

    ★★★★

  • Hot Ticket

  • The Duchess of Langeais

    ★★★½

  • Mountainhead

    ★★½

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The Duchess of Langeais

2007

★★★½ Liked 2

Juliana Hatfield: "a heart that hurts is a heart that works"

Mountainhead

2025

★★½ Watched

So sick of the whole techbro character archetype. Can't turn on your phone without being inundated by the latest on Musk, Zuckerberg and all these other insufferable guys so I really cba with a play about them that has nothing to say

(does have a few funny scenes tho and Jesse gave us peep show, thick of it and succession so he's still a 👑)

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Kinds of Kindness

2024

3

Tests of Patience




Just feels so desperate. Lanthimos is sometimes good at striking the right tone but with this it's like every five minutes somebody is grabbing your shoulders and shaking you, desperate for a reaction. He's throwing all his usual tactics into it but nothing's sticking.

I that Happy End was Haneke mostly re-hashing ideas he had explored better in previous films into a Greatest Hits compilation, and I felt similarly here. This film is ittedly creative but once you get desensitised it loses any power

Want something shocking? Watch Sweet Movie.

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

2023

★★★★ Liked 2

Just read that this cut is entirely comprised of footage not in the original film, so it's basically a new film, or something like Rivette's Divertimento that basically runs parallel to the original cut. I loved it - camp and kitsch as hell and Malcolm McDowell just knocks it out of the park.

The sets are glorious, photography is beautiful and the performances are delightfully camp. Such a shame that the producer messed with the original cut so much because…