Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Perfect Blue 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Oct 2022

  Part of Hooptober 9 (Film #4)

  I feel like I’ve seen so many late-90s/early-aughts films with similar themes and imagery - Aronofsky’s stuff, and Brad Anderson, too (The Machinist; Session 9) - but this one hits different. Watch this as a double feature with Pulse or Cure to immerse yourself in some extremely bleak portrayals of 90s Japan’s hyper-commercial malaise.

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  Extraordinary Tales 2013

  ★★★ Watched 23 Sep 2022

  Part of Hooptober 9 (Film #3)

  Great animation, solid voice acting and a wonderful recording of Bela Lugosi - Poe-heads will struggle to find anything to truly dislike (except maybe the Dark Souls/PS2 animation style for “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the lackluster framework “story”).

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 1922

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Sep 2022

  Part of Hooptober 9 (Film #2)

  Truly terrifying imagery. I went into this film a bit worried that it would hold my interest for the full runtime, but it’s wildly entertaining throughout. Were I alive in 1922 this picture would’ve probably driven me insane.

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  The Night of the Hunter 1955

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Sep 2022

  Part of Hooptober 9 (Film #1)

  Watched as part of a double feature with Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear - and the similarities, especially between De Niro's Cady and Mitchum's Powell, are tough to ignore, never mind the fact that Robert Mitchum starred as Cady in the 1962 original. This movie rocks. Can we talk about how there aren't one but two (!) original songs as part of the score? “Pretty Fly” is a kind of a bop.