Benito Cereno

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Comics person, freelance classicist, Christmas enthusiast

Favorite films

  • Fargo
  • Ed Wood
  • The Wicker Man
  • Bride of Frankenstein

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  • Starve Acre

    ★★★★

  • Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1

    ★★★½

  • Murrain

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★★★½

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  • Starve Acre

    Starve Acre

    ★★★★

    A good adaptation of a good book but I don’t know about that puppet, dogg

    Also shout out to the caption writer who spelled it “Star Baker”

  • Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1

    Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1

    ★★★½

    1) Hell yeah this rules

    2) It’s long af and it’s only part one

    3) Every time someone on screen is shown smoking there’s a little warning label in the bottom corner telling you that smoking is dangerous. Unfortunately, every time someone is smoking on screen, they make it look like the coolest thing possible to do

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  • Pig

    Pig

    ★★★★★

    I recognize that the premise of this movie makes it seem like a John Wick or a Mandy except with a pig instead of a human woman named Mandy. That’s definitely not the case, though I suppose you could argue it builds a Wick-esque universe except with chefs instead of assassins. This is not a murder-fueled revenge fest; it’s not an action thriller at all. Instead, it’s a subdued meditation on death and acceptance, and a brutal indictment on modern haute cuisine

    This is, hands down, no irony, the best movie I’ve seen so far this year

  • RRR

    RRR

    ★★★★★

    I knew going in that this movie is three hours long, so I put it on at midnight assuming I would stop it midway through and watch the rest later. What a fool I. I couldn’t have stopped it if I tried. I was thrusting my fists in the air all the way until 3am and the film’s rising climax.

    This movie is one of the most amazing artifacts ever set to film. It’s an epic action fantasy, but it’s…