Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Jimmy & Stiggs 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2024

  Bonkers.

  Even when he’s just screwing around in an apartment with friends, Begos has the King Midas touch. One of the few proper midnight movies of the year.

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  Children of the Corn 2020

  ★★ Watched 04 Aug 2023

  Not a single adaptation of Stephen King’s book has gotten it right yet, but Corn Groot is unforgivable here.

Popular reviews

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  MouseHunt 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Mar 2021

  Absolutely unhinged. A masterpiece of grim slapstick from the minds of unstable men. If you loved this movie as a kid, you’re a Coen Bros. fanatic now. I don’t make the rules

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  Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer 2021

  ★★ Watched 15 Jan 2021

  When doing true crime docs, it’s always good to present the viewer with a general grasp of the culture and climate surrounding the crime. It’s what makes the awful police response to the Yorkshire Ripper murders understandable (not forgivable, but understandable in a cause-and-effect sense); Netflix’s The Ripper works well to highlight the victims and to highlight the fact that the killer could have been caught far sooner had it not been for an explicit bias among both law enforcement…