I'd seen and reviewed this back in 2013 and after re-watching it I didn't really like my original review so I deleted it and to be honest I feel that way about my older reviews often. I'd already given Eraserhead a 5/5 but I just feel like my attempt at trying to put this surrealist masterpiece into words back then didn't translate that well looking back at it. Anyway when I first saw this I was very new to David…

When I first saw Blue Velvet I thought it was one of the more straight forward films from David Lynch but the more I've seen it the more complex I've come to realize it really is. After a few viewings it's evident that there are several things I didn't originally pick up on. The film opens in a suburban area of America as we see a young man Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) find a disfigured human ear which he takes…

Beautifully shot, relentless and brutally effective. Really horror cinema at it's purest. The sound design, soundtrack, production design as well as the editing and cinematography is just masterful and the performences are just so raw and convincing. I really like how Tobe Hooper structured everything, there are no backstories yet he took his time and knew exactly when to strike which makes every kill so damn intense and memorable. No matter how many times I see this I always feel…

Martin Scorsese had suffered a near fatal cocaine overdose just before this was made and the biography of Jake LaMotta was shown to Scorsese by De Niro during a hospital visit and that's how we eventually got this masterpiece. Scorsese is said to have felt this could have been his last film and it's intensity and rawness can actually be hard to stomach at times but it feels so personal and you just can't look away. The beautiful black and…

This film is Based on of the life of T. E. Lawrence who was most famous for leading armies of Arabian tribes in military campaigns going against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The film was directed by renowned filmaker David Lean and Peter O'Toole starred as Lawrence in one of the greatest performances I've ever seen in a film and I'll go into more detail with that soon. So it was beautifully shot in 70mm with such care…