DirkH

Off to 2046 for a while.

Favorite films

  • Werckmeister Harmonies
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Leviathan
  • 2046

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  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★★★

  • Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

  • Elevation

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Thunderbolts*

2025

★★★★ Liked 4

So, before I start yapping about the excellent Thunderbolts* I need to talk about Andor first.

Why? Well, it's from the same company and I think they represent the same thing. A welcome change. See, Andor was perhaps the first Disney Original that did something to break away from the Star Wars cookie cutter production line. It embraced the Universe it was created in, but tried to be its own thing without obsessively trying to please fans by harkening to…

Dune: Part Two

2024

★★★★ Liked 14

Hollow, superficial, forced, trite, annoying and one dimensional.

But that was just Chalamet's performance.

The rest was gorgeous, well acted, scrumptious, stunning and utterly engaging.

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Chungking Express

1994

★★★★★ Liked 54

I love the stupidity of holding on to what has moved on.

I love the smallness of the biggest emotion we know.

I love the pain that doesn't seem to leave but you know somehow it will.

I love seeing love.

And I love how Wong Kar-Wai manages to capture all of the above and mold it into a piece of visual poetry, instilled with the melancholy, pain, joy, frivolity and promise our species' most powerful four letter word possesses.…

Before Sunrise

1995

★★★★★ Liked 18

The best love poem ever filmed.

Sweet without being sugary.

Heartfelt without being sappy.

A big heart shaped slice of perfection.