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  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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  • Taste of Cherry

    Taste of Cherry 1997

    ★★★★★ Watched 21 Sep 2024 5

    Oxford describes beauty as “pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically”. I don’t consider that a just or fair definition. Taste of Cherry encapsulates why entirely. 

    Beauty isn’t in the stars or lamp lit city streets. It isn’t in the fanciest restaurant or finest painting money can buy. It’s in the soul. It’s in the people who light them lamps and wash your dishes when you’re done with them. It’s found within the people that clear your table. Beauty is a…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two 2024

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Mar 2024

    I have never seen a movie more than once in a cinema, never more than once in one week and never on my own. I left the cinema today completely lost for words, completely blown away and almost in a state of shock, even on my second viewing.

    Denis Villeneuve has balls of fucking steel and along with the genius of Greig Fraser and a monumental Hans Zimmer score, completely reinvents everything we know about science fiction and visual storytelling.…

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  • The Substance

    The Substance 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2024 3

    You all need help, every single one of you.

    (throwing up a literal tit could be the biggest flex of the decade)

  • Queer

    Queer 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 13 Dec 2024 1

    A sweaty inhale of venereal and unjustifiable love.

    I can’t remember the last time I left the cinema and had endless words to say but also just so little. A visually and emotionally intoxicating ride into the fluidity of one’s own identity. A nudge into the trials and tribulations of love and addiction. That no matter how dark it takes you, all that matters is love (and looking cool while smoking). 

    Daniel Craig. My word. All that I can do…

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