Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Police Story 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  This movie’s got everything—flips, kicks, gags, lovable derpy masculinity, instant replay

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  Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  “Don’t give too much away” - Miles Davis

Popular reviews

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  Echo in the Canyon 2018

  ★★ Watched 26 Jun 2019 1

  This is the type of music documentary that is enjoyable solely because it contains a few quality minutes of Brian Wilson talking. While the film’s main message “a bunch of white sell outs all lived near each other in LA, got high, and changed pop music forever” rings true throughout, this documentary ultimately fails at meaningfully capturing the significance of the music made in this period.

  Focusing so throughly on the “folk-rock” of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and their ilk,…

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  8½ 1963

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2019

  This is one of those art films that leaves you with oh-so-ambiguous feelings of complete self-awareness and enlightenment, along with an equally present inability to put any of those revelatory feelings into actual words. You just sit there like... I get IT! What IS IT? I don’t know... but it SEems to have to do with SEX and ABUSIVE MASCULINITY, and AUTEURS. 

  I mean it’s really, really good.