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Favorite films

  • Pulp Fiction
  • Rear Window
  • The Dark Knight
  • Amélie

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  • Scarlet Street

    ★★★★½

  • The Woman in the Window

    ★★★★

  • Bring Her Back

    ★★★★½

  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★★

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Scarlet Street

1945

★★★★½ Watched

25 Directors in 2025 Challenge
Fritz Lang

As a genre, film noir doesn't get much more iconic or classic than SCARLETT STREET, with an expertly told story surrounding the drastic things a hapless man agrees to do, simply because he loves a woman who doesn't feel the same way towards him.

A remake of Jean Renoir’s 1931 LA CHIENNE is said to be Fritz Lang’s favorite among his Hollywood era films. The themes of moral turpitude and brazen sexuality proved…

The Woman in the Window

1944

★★★★ Watched

25 Directors in 2025 Challenge
Fritz Lang

"I hate this solidity, this stodginess I'm beginning to feel. It's the end of the brightness of life. The end of spirit of adventure. Life ends at 40."

In Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window, a distinguished professor's life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with a mysterious woman from a portrait. The film subverts traditional noir tropes, departing from the typical femme fatale narrative where a seductive woman manipulates…

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Bring Her Back

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

WARNING: this movie is not for those that are easily squamish. Unless you are a hard-core horror fan you should sit this one out.

Danny and Michael Philippou's highly anticipated follow-up to their surprise hit TALK TO ME is a movie that's perhaps even more chilling than their breakout feature debut. In their new film BRING HER BACK, parental grief unleashes madness and abuse to an 11, with enough wince-inducing violence to keep many seasoned moviegoers squirming in their seats,…

Anora

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

This year's Palm d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival is easily the best movie of the year. This is the type of movie we say we don't see enough of. ANORA could easily be compared to PRETTY WOMAN but director Sean Baker digs deeper. Like all of his past films, Baker deals with the American Dream through the eyes of sex workers, destigmatizing the stereotypes attached to these people who are often marginalized. He tells this love story with…