Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Quite funny. Seeing 2D Western animation on the big screen is getting scarcer these days, so that was a treat in itself.

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  Windy City Heat 2003

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  A product of its era that's just a little too mean spirited for me to give a full pass on. Sure, Perry is clearly a shit person, but it doesn't feel deserved. I don't know, laughed a number of times and he seems proud of this still, so whatever.

  Everybody insists that this dude is real, so I have to believe at this point. Also because it wouldn't be that great if they did fake it.

Popular reviews

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  Roma 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2019

  On a short list of films that have made me cry. I don’t know why it doesn’t happen more often, I’m honestly a fairly emotional person, but this film was just so beautifully personal and chilling that I couldn’t help it. To show such an intimate, yet brutal moment, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Extremely hard to watch but impossible to turn away. I’m usually not the biggest fan of films that linger, but this one has been…

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Oct 2019

  Waited in line about 3 1/2 hours for the chance to see this a week early with a post-screening Q&A with Robert Eggers. Barely got in, but it was all worth it.

  The work Eggers puts in to build the world of his films is astounding and well worth the effort. This truly felt like the visual version of hearing a tale around the campfire, but with the added absurdity of the imagery and the incomparable performances of Dafoe and…