Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Opus 2025

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Kinda think this wouldn’t have been dumped on as hard if it weren’t an A24 release.

  It gets a little messy in the third act, but up until then I was having a hell of a lot of fun. Malkovich rocks and there’s some interesting questions raised about celebrity and the pedestal we build and fight to keep them on, regardless of if we want to or should.

  Dina Simone is a bop.

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  The Conversation 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Harry Caul, spirit animal of the lonely audiophile, who can’t relate? Gawd Hackman.

Popular reviews

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  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Dec 2023

  “I did it” declares a buffoon after failing for 97 minutes straight.

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  Jingle All the Way 1996

  ★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2022

  It’s a bad movie in pretty much every metric, but its pretty fun to make fun of and dissect how dumb it is, plus it gave us this super normal exchange between a father and his 7 year old son:

  “Jamie, how you doing old buddy?”
  “HI DAD, I KNEW YOU’D CALL!”

  Stray observations:

  - Never once even slightly acknowledged that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a monstrous man from Austria who sells mattresses

  - Phil Hartman is incredible, him orgasming over…