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  • Wicked Little Letters

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  • Gladiator

    Gladiator 2000

    ★★★½ Rewatched 17 Jul 2024 19

    The historical epic genre was thought to be dead and done when Ridley Scott’s Gladiator was released at the turn of the century, turning audience’s heads with its massive scale and easily digestible narrative that brings the Roman Empire to life in all its breathtaking glory. A fictionalized account of history where actual events are altered for dramatic purposes it may be, but it’s also a film where the story ultimately counts less than the experience, with every scene meticulously…

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 19 Oct 2024

    Jacques Audiard’s gangster musical Emilia Pérez is the blast you’ve heard it is: eccentric, fast-paced, energetic, a wild ride from beginning to end. People are going to love it and hate it with a passion; the conversations surrounding it are already heated everywhere you look and will probably only become more polarized when it hits Netflix in a month. But it’s also a film that feels joyful and proudly alive, alive with passion and energy and love of life, as…

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  • Wicked Little Letters

    Wicked Little Letters 2023

    ★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2024

    “Oh, fuck off, you pasty, old, shriveled, old piss bastard fucking old cunt!”

    I was caught off-guard by just how many recognizable faces were part of this British period comedy. Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman are the obvious highlights and selling points of the film (Buckley making her way through the entire jargon of profanities with her Irish accent elicited a surprising amount of laughs from me), but there are also the wonderfully detestable Timothy Spall, sharp-tongued Joanna Scanlan, the…

  • Coming Out

    Coming Out 1989

    ★★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2024

    Feels like a movie that shouldn’t exist, in the best way possible. It’s a glance at homosexuality and coming to terms with your own identity in pre-unification East Germany, a film that hits even harder when you consider the political status quo of the time of its production. The film premiered on 9th November 1989 in East Berlin as the first and only film produced in East Germany focused on homosexual characters, and when people left the premiere, they were…

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  • Cabaret

    Cabaret 1972

    ★★★★★ Watched 16 Jun 2021 4

    "Screw Maximilian!"
    "I do."
    "... So do I."

    Any film with such an iconic exchange of lines is worth five stars in my book.

  • Dune

    Dune 2021

    ★★★★½ Watched 17 Sep 2021 11

    "An animal caught in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape. What will you do?"

    So, Dune. Easily the most highly anticipated movie of the year for many, which is inevitably going to lead to some reactions of disappointment. In my book, Denis Villeneuve transcends all my high hopes with his visually striking adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic novel.

    To get it out of the way first, the major criticism of Dune so far seems to be…

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