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Favourites are four most recent fivers on rotation.
Actual favourites here.

Favorite films

  • No Country for Old Men
  • The Social Network
  • You Can Count on Me
  • The Hitcher

All
  • The Getaway

    ★★★

  • Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke

    ★★½

  • 2 Guns

    ★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★

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Past Lives

2023

★★★★★ Liked 2

Dealing with something much deeper than what is already a captivating and maturely-rendered story of love and relationship dynamics, it is equally about confronting and embracing the varying incarnations of one's self and the stepping stones that brought you to where you are today.

It's a delicate balancing act, reckoning with the duality of gratitude for everything you have in the present day and musing over things that remind you of home and the various paths not taken.

Celine Song…

Upgrade

2018

★★★★★ Liked 5

It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction.

One day soon, a great debate will take place over how Logan Marshall-Green was market-corrected by Tom Hardy for the petty crime of looking just a little too much like him. Curious to know if I'm alone on this hill, but LMG has the looks (complete with deep, intense eyes and the ability to continuously shapeshift his physicality), comic timing (evidenced here, unlocked for arguably the first time) and range (see…

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The Getaway

1994

★★★ Watched

A pretty obnoxious puddle of nineties gratuitousness redeemed almost entirely by a standout car chase and the unexpectedly touching Farnsworth-led closer. 

I’ve never seen Madsen more checked out, a guy who has 292 film credits according to Letterboxd — including 21 in the space of four years between 1992 and 1995. So perhaps the lad was just knackered, or simply could not sanction Jennifer Tilly’s buffoonery. I can’t find it now, but he used to blog his reasons for taking…

The Hitcher

1986

★★★★★ Liked Watched

So much fun it’s offensive. 

Jeffrey DeMunn has had the most surprised face in Hollywood for almost 40 years.

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Alien: Romulus

2024

★★★½ Liked Watched

Run.

This is one of many reasons I think Letterboxd is a very great thing. There's something about watching all those reactions drip through on your feed for a new release, the infectious buzz and the consensus that something can't be missed whilst in theatres, even if it’s something you wouldn't ordinarily rush out to see. Letterboxd is getting bums on seats. Letterboxd is a good thing for cinema.

As it turns out, I seemed to enjoy this more than…

Rebel Ridge

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

It's not even funny how up my street this is. It reminded me of Walking Tall (2004) but with hyper-competent direction and actual professional actors. Small-town corruption, brooding heroism, cliché-ridden but mightily satisfying vengeance. The glossy visuals have been Netflix'd up to the eyeballs, unfortunately doing away with the delectable grit and grime of Saulnier's previous work, but his expertise in jacked-up tension and violent combat realism remains. Robb is arguably the weak link and there might just be one too many clichés to not overlook it but overall this, quite frankly, rips.

Excuse me while I try and find my way out of Aaron Pierre's eyes.