Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Grease 1978

  ★★★½ Rewatched 26 Jan 2025 1

  (sing-a-long at vidiots with the fam!)

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  No Country for Old Men 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Dec 2024 1

  i will never fully comprehend how a film can be this objectively perfect. but not without its rough edges and peculiarities. it feels crafted. not perfect in a way that’s clinical or shiny. but where every moment is so beyond exquisite. the camera is always in the right place. every scene begins and ends at the perfect moment. i think what makes a film like this so special is the absolute alchemy that you cannot manufacture. tommy lee jones more…

Popular reviews

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★★ Watched 16 Jun 2023 3

  okay. i liked it. but i can’t help but feel at a distance with these stories within stories (ie french dispatch). they are kind of screenwriting marvels, because i can’t imagine organizing this much into a coherent document.

  i felt disconnected with all the levels of artifice. kind of unsure if i could trust the movie enough to feel invested in a character or if it was a scene playing out within a scene. i do understand that, on some…

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  The Secrets of Hillsong 2023

  ★★★ Watched 16 Jul 2023 2

  watched this a while ago but never logged it.

  i can’t really get into all of my thoughts on this now. but i’ll just say — the “mega-church” problem is systematic and top down. this is not just about one indefensibly guilty “bad apple” (as much as the powers-that-be would like to make him the sole scapegoat) but rather a rotten tree.

  and the reality is, this is not solely a hillsong problem. for decades other churches around the world…