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Banging soundtrack but insanely frustrating watch.

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

Heartbreaking that this simply wouldn't be made today. They'd kill you for making this shit.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Sadly the masterpiece Andor did not improve this for me.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

I've never watched something where the prologue is borderline unwatchable, the first half of the movie just feels weirdly off, and then suddenly there's an astonishingly incredible sequence and the second half of the movie is awesome. So weird.

I'll miss these movies a lot though. A special place in my heart.

Sometimes you just end up watching one of the most awesome motion pictures ever made.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Just awesome. Makes you love living life.

Watching this directly after watching Mission: Impossible II is like eating a delicious meal after drinking a can of paint.

Why is it so boring man

Hush now lil girls... Lotta cats have that name.

Didn't realize fun was allowed in these anymore, wow.

I'd like it to be known that I only watched this as punishment for not meeting a writing deadline.

It's safe to say that the punishment was very much felt.

The way this looks really stretches the definition of 'motion picture'.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

This might actually be the most broadly fun movie ever. It's ridiculously cute, you really love everyone you're supposed to love (and HATE a couple of people), it's funny, charming, sappy and melodramatic in the perfect ways, and feels like the joy of being young, has a soundtrack which is banger after banger (and again, all just so fun), and in the midst of all that is a beautiful portrait of positive masculinity?

Everything from top to bottom is insanely fun, what a gem.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Making an Eastern European mafia movie after Anora is asking to lose.

And that's not even mentioning the rest of the slop.

After possibly the worst day of movies I've ever done, this seems like the best film ever made.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

An unbelievable viewing experience (complimentary).

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

This has one of, if not the, best shot I've ever seen in a film.

I can't believe I've lived in Australia for 7 years (at film school for most of that time) and had never heard of this film. What an insane gem of a movie. Shaken completely by the ending.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

Why are they even all black?

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

I didn't know the Punjabi mafia run the Gold Coast, damn.

Did nobody notice that he's a monkey? So weird.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

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Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 12, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

There are a lot of things I can say about this and I can also just not say anything, so I'm going to keep writing until I feel like stopping.

One thing which is almost indisputable is that this is one of the most unbelievably impressive works of television, film and even art which has ever been made, and there is no praise enough about that. Directing (and writing with Mark Frost) eighteen episodes of television for a series which pushes the boundaries of the medium in multiple ways is an astoundingly cool final project for possibly the most beloved filmmaker to ever do it.

Framing this primarily as David Lynch's final work (yes, he did have other things brewing) is the appropriate approach to considering The Return, I think. It feels like a natural evolution of Lynch's idea of America, its people, culture and iconography. And contrasting so starkly to the same themes in Twin Peaks 25 years ago feels deliberate in every sense.

Twin Peaks itself is barely the focal point of the show. It's set all around America, and one of the shows many discomforting underbellies lies in the lack of life and colour present in almost the entire show. The warm, comforting small town replaced by the cold emptiness of corporate America and meaningless suburbia. Or perhaps, just a world without Dale Cooper.

It's such a fascinating choice in itself to include characters from the original show but so many of them are just… mundane. Struggling with the realities of life and sometimes having no purpose narratively. Certainly, so many of them don’t even get any sort of closure and the last times we see them they are not in a place that feels right to be left off. But this also feels like a reflection of Lynch’s feelings towards contemporary America – how much does the regular person matter when so increasingly everyone needs to ‘matter’? How much do these everyday folks really matter to you? Is it better for them to just have lived the life that they lived, and that they haven’t been living their lives for us?

Something which I do think is kind of beautiful is that even though you never feel like you’re back in Twin Peaks when you’re watching The Return, which is what almost everyone who watched this show wanted to feel, Dale Cooper (or, well, Dougie) makes even the sleaziest and least homely town, Las Vegas, almost feel like Twin Peaks does. Yes, you do spend quite a bit of time even accepting the fact that you are watching The Adventures of Dougie Jones and that you will be for a long time, but by the end of it, you end up in this fascinating place of feeling like all the good in the world has shone through the evil in Las Vegas and is the prominent force in the lives of Dougie and everyone around him. Despite the rest of the world feeling more evil, more desolate and more devoid of the capacity for good, Dale still finds a way – consciously or subconsciously – and so do Andy, Lucy, Hawk, and a handful of other characters. Lynch still has faith in people, and that feels to me like the most profound statement on America that he could have made.

I could keep going about every little thing but it’s at this point that I feel like stopping. It’s the kind of show that you can endlessly talk about and find meaning at every turn. And certainly, you should.

But regardless of any feelings towards the show, I think it’s just so impressive, so intentional and so monumental. A perfect end to the filmography of one of the greatest champions of cinema we have all been blessed to have.

Watched on Tuesday March 11, 2025.

A deeply uncomfortable and confronting experience.

It's fascinating to see how hotels/motels are in Asian films as opposed to western films, at least from my limited sample size (Motel Cactus and now this). They're such surreal places, caught between the feeling of home and the cold, hostile feeling of definitely not actually being home.

I wasn't really into this film but this feeling is ever-present while watch it, and kind of lingering after it's over.

(in some capacity)

• Carnal Vessels
• Sex Friend
• The Odd River

1. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
5. Mission: Impossible
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible III
8. Mission: Impossible II

1. Sinners
2. Mickey 17
3. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
4. Thunderbolts*
5. The Ballad of Wallis Island
6. A Working Man
7. Captain America: Brave New World
8. The Electric State

Not in any order.

• Decision to Leave
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Millennium Mambo
• The Shining
• Before Sunrise
• Spider-Man 2
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Licorice Pizza
• Amadeus

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
3. Star Wars
4. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Solo: A Star Wars Story
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
9. Return of the Jedi
10. LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. All We Imagine as Light
2. Between the Temples
3. Anora
4. Challengers
5. Dune: Part Two
6. A Real Pain
7. Hundreds of Beavers
8. Juror #2
9. We Live in Time
10. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This will probably be changing constantly and likely isn't even 100% accurate.

Not in any order.

• The Taste of Tea
• Phantom Thread
• I Wish
• All We Imagine as Light
• Love Exposure
• Millennium Mambo
• Harakiri
• 2046
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Decision to Leave

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A select bunch of films that I don't just dislike, but wonder why I ever watched. There are loads of films I don't like, but I need to ask myself 'why?' for a film to have qualified for this list.

Yes, I am aware that there are multiple movies from different series' here. I am not proud of myself.

Not ranked.

• Catwoman
• Justice League
• Red Notice
• After
• After We Collided
• After We Fell
• After Ever Happy
• Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
• Bhola Shankar
• Dragonball Evolution

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Holdovers
2. Oppenheimer
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. The Iron Claw
5. ages
6. Suzume
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
9. John Wick: Chapter 4
10. May December

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Well, the of the ones I've watched.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Parasite
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. Amadeus
5. Oppenheimer
6. Casablanca
7. The Godfather Part II
8. Ben-Hur
9. The Godfather
10. Anora

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eyes Wide Shut
• In the Mood for Love
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Spider-Man
• Lost in Translation
• The Taste of Tea
• Batman Begins
• Casino Royale
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Love Exposure

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Only what I've watched.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
3. The Avengers
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Captain America: Civil War
6. Avengers: Age of Ultron
7. Black Panther
8. Captain America: The First Avenger
9. Thor
10. Doctor Strange

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.