Sarah MacPhee

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Neurodivergent, non-binary, film masters dropout and general menace.

Kjipuktuk (Halifax), NS

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Recent reviews

Cuckoo 2024

★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

Spoiler-y review!
Wow - weird! Legitimately weird. I liked it.
What do you mean people have been rating the movie with at least 3 scenes involving cummy alien hands 2 stars?
Moving on - Very vibey movie. I would like all of Dan Stevens' outfits in my closet, stat. The 35mm looks real good, fun score, great red/green colour palette, and there's an uncanny valley creature-situation. Thought all the pulsating throat imagery was pretty creepy, too.
Wasn't super into the…
Suddenly, Last Summer 1959

★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2025

Nine months?
The length of a pregnancy, yes...
The poem was hard to deliver?
I've read a bit of Tennesse Williams, but this wasn't even on my radar. And with all this talk of the terrible Encantadas(Williams), Night-Blooming Dementia Praecox (as I discovered, not Williams), etc - I did absolutely have to read the play as soon as I finished watching. Right up my alley - Love the atmosphere that intial exchange of obsessive madness and echolalia between Mrs. Venable…

Popular reviews

Anne of Green Gables 1985

★★★★★ Rewatched 21 May 2021 1

Matthew trying to buy the puffy sleeve dress is the most pure scene that has ever graced a screen and I will not hear any arguments on this
Enys Men 2022

★★★★★ Watched 17 Sep 2022 2

Okay guys, I dunno, I heard a couple audience grumblies after this one but I liked it (shocker). It's very different from Bait, and has a comparably beautiful look and scrappy feel. Throughout, I was reminded of Robin Redbreast, Anchoress, John Smith's The Black Tower, The Quatermass Xperiment, and as others have noted, Don't Look Now. Then that's all woven together with some extemely M.R. Jamesian foreboding vibes.
Also, I went into this barely being able to keep my eyes…

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