Rory Hunter

Rory Hunter

Favorite films

  • Big Hero 6
  • Blade Runner
  • The Lion King
  • Frozen

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  • The Breadwinner

    ★★★★½

  • Koyaanisqatsi

    ★★★

  • Lemon

    ★★★

  • Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

    ★½

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  • Koyaanisqatsi

    Koyaanisqatsi

    ★★★

    I’ve now marked 1000 “films” (721 actual movies, give or take) as watched on Letterboxd, so why not review item No. 1000?

    It was OK.

    No but really, it was a really interesting film and I’ve never seen a documentary or film in general quite like this, all footage with no narration or dialogue. The associative approach allows the audience to naturally draw the themes of industrialisation and humanity’s encroachment on the environment. I think it’s a bit too long, and I feel like it starts to lose the intense thematic focus as it goes on. That being said, that ending is just excellent.

  • Lemon

    Lemon

    ★★★

    I watched this for uni. It’s 7 minutes of a light moving across a lemon. When it ended, we all applauded. I know the point of it is to play around with the idea of lighting and the different forms of photographic art and cinema, and I appreciate that, but my biggest takeaway was probably still “damn, that lemon is well lit”.

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  • Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023

    Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023

    ★★★

    I've watched this twice now, so my thoughts are a little clearer. This is for charity, so I'm not going to be mean, but I can't say I loved it. David Tennant is great as ever, it's nice to see that the Fourteenth Doctor feels different from the Tenth Doctor, and Julian Bleach's return as Davros made me so happy. Mawaan Rizwam didn't really do it for me, and the joke about the anagrams wasn't amazing, but the plunger joke…

  • Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

    Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    “Wild Blue Yonder” has aired. I have to say, I really liked it. It had some flaws, sure, but I will never turn down some absurdist Doctor Who with existential horror and surreal imagery. I mean, my favourite Doctor Who story ever is “Heaven Sent”. You do the maths.

    Indeed, it is the surreal and experimental elements of this story that really spoke to me. The Not-Things are an incredible concept, and RTD wasn’t joking when he said this would…