Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 29 Nov 2024

  What if Dorian Gray’s portrait was a subscription service?
  What if Jean-Pierre Jeunet created Black Mirror?

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2024

  “I Am Finding Being Alive Fascinating”
  “We are a machine you feed with compliments and Chocolate”

Popular reviews

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  Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2005

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2015

  One of my favorite documentaries ever, capturing Dave Chappelle at the end of his meteoric run on Comedy Central, when he threw a block party in Brooklyn with all of his favorite musicians.

  Season 2 of Chappelle's Show had aired in Spring 2004, and that September he held the concert. In 2005 he would walk away from $50 million and leave the show due to a variety of issues with studio heads and management. His Block Party was him at…

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  What We Do in the Shadows 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2015

  Anthony Mayes’s review:
  Writing:
  - 1 star: makes the movie special (X)
  - 1/2 star: fits the movie ()
  - 0 stars: detracts from the movie ()
  Very clever idea and execution. Written by two of the stars, Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the premise of a documentary (office style) on vampires living together with cut away interviews is a fresh approach to a trendy and timeless topic, the nefarious lives of the undead. The dialogue is sharp and the…

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