Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I don’t want to seem preoccupied with looks or sleazy, but Cate Blanchett looks so fucking good in this.

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  King of the Hill 1993

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  First film watched as part of a lil film club with some of the fellas from film school.

  Early work from Steven Soderbergh. Unlike some of his formal experiments as of late, this is him making films in an extremely competent but traditional filmmaking style.

  "King of the Hill" would be a great film to show high schoolers who are studying the Great Depression. You've got a smart kid (a fantastic performance by Jesse Bradford) living in a hotel where…

Popular reviews

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  How Stella Got Her Groove Back 1998

  ★★★ Watched 25 Aug 2019 1

  A peculiar movie. First hour moves at a breakneck pace and is basically Angela Bassett looking fine as hell, being horny with Taye Diggs, who is also looking like a snack. Movie at this point is basically 'How Stella Got Her Back Blown Out'.

  Then the second half kicks in and lays the melodrama on thick but not detrimentally. Corny, funny and sweet.

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  The First Monday in May 2016

  ★★ Watched 06 Nov 2017 2

  Yawn.

  The fashion is undeniably beautiful and Met Gala photos are always fun to spend an afternoon looking at each year.

  However, this documentary about the process of putting together that event and an exhibition, just shows how conceited a lot of these people are, elitists in fashion talking about how elitists in art don't accept them boo hoo.

  A lot of preemptive damage control by decidedly non-Asian curators talking about why it was appropriate to have a Chinese theme…