Olly J D Patron

Card-carrying Contrarian.
Film student and future critic.
Batman & Star Wars Expert.

Favorite films

  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Oppenheimer
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Quadrophenia

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  • Fargo

    ★★★★★

  • Paddleton

    ★★★★½

  • Longlegs

    ★★★½

  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    ★★★★

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The Last House on the Left

1972

½ Rewatched

Wes Craven is heralded as a horror legend. Director of massively influential classics such as ‘Scream’ and ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’, he once walked out of a screening of the Tarantino classic ‘Reservoir Dogs’, during a particularly gruesome scene. He claimed that it was exploitative and that what was shown did not aid the story. (I’m not sure if this story is true, but I became aware of it due to highly respected critic Mark Kermode, who claims that Craven…

The Night of the Hunter

1955

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

I am fully aware how obsessed I am with this movie. I choose to watch it over and over again instead of watching something new. But I don't care, it's that good. This is my final review of what is, after much consideration, my favourite movie.

What a fellowship,
What a joy divine
Leaning on the everlasting arms.
What a blessedness,
What a peace is mine
Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Leaning, Leaning
Safe and secure from all alarms.
Leaning,…

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Fargo

1996

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

yah

Paddleton

2019

★★★★½ Liked Watched

i am going to be inconsolable for a while.

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In Bruges

2008

★★★★★ Liked 1

One of the best scripts i’ve ever seen.

The 1975 'At Their Very Best' Live from Madison Square Garden

2022

½ 2

Matty Healy is a bellend