Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Nov 2024

  Every horror event is maximally terrifying and the pacing is flawless. What more could you ask for here?

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  Highlander 1986

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Sep 2024

  I don’t know the circumstances around this movie at all, but I know my viewing was enhanced once I started noticing that every single decision was the most “pacing around the room on cocaine” decision for what should happen next to stun and captivate the audience, and every single one of those choices was absolutely correct.

Popular reviews

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  Infernal Affairs 2002

  ★★ Watched 09 Dec 2020 1

  A compelling enough premise is undermined by terrible direction, dogshit editing, a completely schizophrenic soundtrack, laugh-out-loud hilariously tone deaf “emotional” scenes, and a romantic subplot or two that serve no purpose at all and go absolutely nowhere.

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  Green Room 2015

  ½ Watched 26 Jul 2019

  Nothing, and I mean nothing, anyone does follows any logic at all. The dialogue is either nonsensical or just plain terrible, and the action isn’t even good enough to redeem any of that. This movie has got to have been produced for some sort of hollywood money laundering scheme.
  The entire jackboot neonazi punk setting may as well have been replaced with a building bearing a huge sign that says “BAD GUYS INC.” because none of the actors behave or…