Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Penguin 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  god damn pleasure to see this irish beast in action for such a gratuitously long time-
  it’s engaging plot wise, but he brings so much with his mannerisms+improv that is so clearly Colin Farrell humor 

  good tv

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  Maps to the Stars 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  this is exactly what house-sitting a Hollywood hills mansion but needing to walk down to Hollywood boulevard to retrieve your antibiotics for an STI from CVS and then getting a thong from Victoria’s Secret next to the Dave and busters with the haunted Spiderman cosplayers covered in shit tailing you for a picture feels like

  glam

Popular reviews

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  X 2022

  ½ Watched 22 Oct 2022

  boring as fuck. like paying 25 cents to walk through the G rated “freak show” at the carnival and it’s just kid cudi’s dick and some girl in prosthetic. 
  that makes it sound better than it is. a really boring sex thriller if you can believe it and i really want to stop talking about it with everyone…
  people who were shocked or provoked by anything here were teens or don’t think very much.
  has the kind of weird contradictory rhetoric/feelings towards sex that weirdly raunchy conservative straight girls can’t seem to shake….uncomfortable and boring

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  Belladonna of Sadness 1973

  ★★½ Rewatched 03 May 2022 1

  watching this movie might be on par with an act of self harm…
  as someone fully enamored with and convinced by the gutteral/ecstatic/holy(?) force of erotic art—everything from shiele to bellmer to certain pinups to the ecstasy of st therèse… (even some f*cked up ones!)

  my internal fight with this film is whether or not the artistic portrayal is enough to push jeanne’s unspoken emotions and thoughts and desires into the mind of the viewer. i think the way Jeanne’s…