Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Malignant 2021

  ★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2021 1

  Not a serious film by any stretch, but distinctive (I don’t know Annabelle Wallis but her performance here is pretty bleak and I like it) with some LOLs and marked by a conceptual brio few horror filmmakers seem willing to chance these days.

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  The Suicide Squad 2021

  ★★★ Watched 05 Aug 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Possessor 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2020

  Opens with a glossy murder sequence that seems to be the jumping-off point for a glossy techno-thriller, as our killer is revealed to be an assassin who operates by taking over the minds of working stiffs who are in a position to be close enough to various VIPs to carry out quick hits. The unlucky prole chews on a bullet as their possessor blinks out of the equation and returns to her own body. And then the film veers into…

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  Neighbors 2014

  ★★★ Watched 09 May 2014 3

  At 44, I sometimes feel like I've been growing up for decades while popular culture has been standing still. Radio stations I hear in grocery stores and coffee shops play the same songs that were popular when I was in high school. The comic books and fantasy novels that I read in the 1970s and 1980s (or their derivatives) have become the blockbuster TV and film franchises of the 2010s. Saturday Night Live has been on the air, in sickness…