Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  1. Not in the best headspace for such sweetly uncomplicated romance 
  2. Old man Brosnan COOKING 
  3. Every single time Tom Burke was on screen my brain went “Mank . . . it’s Orson Welles” 
  4. Why did it look like that?
  5. This was a banger but also still felt incredibly lightweight and insubstantial! Sorry Sodey!
  6. But it won over the toughest critic of all, my Mom - she loved it.

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  Superbad 2007

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  “Can I get 13 beers to go?”

  It’s this or Zodiac for best screenplay of the 2000s

Popular reviews

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  When the Wind Blows 1986

  ½ Watched 23 Feb 2023

  Horrifying, brutally realistic depiction of what it would be like to be British.

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  Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Apr 2022

  Bois and company continue to wring tragedy, horror, and comedy from newspaper clippings, VHS-quality footage, pixelated photographs, and charts made on baseballreference.com. The focus this time is Dave Stieb, a pitcher for the Toronto Bluejays who is slowly revealed to be a figure of uncommon will, talent, and fire, destined to be misunderstood by the press, under-appreciated by his contemporaries, unrecognized by MLB awards, underpaid for his achievements, surrounded by poor talent for his prime, and plagued by injuries, slowly…