Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025

  ★ Watched 08 Mar 2025 3

  Some real ErrolMorrisGPT vibes

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  Gimme Shelter 1970

  Rewatched 28 Feb 2025

  Invites and bathes in more ahistorical square world cliche ("the lie of the 60s" etc) than the average psy-op, but this is also great if for no other reason than being a fly on the wall for the moment Jerry and Phil are told what a bum scene it is, and they just get back on the helicopter and keep on trucking.

Popular reviews

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  The Shining 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Dec 2023 16

  Really thrilled to be able to discuss The Shining and the tug toward the void on Amy Hensarling’s podcast. Her Progress Series involves heavy and spiritual investigations into films, sobriety, and health, and so we discuss the weight of Jack’s soul against the bottom of his ghost-poured glass. Check it out, and Amy’s podcast if you haven’t, and cheers to 2024. 

  Amy’s Progress | Ep 12 | Audio • Video

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  Collateral 2004

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Aug 2023 3

  Coyotes run red lights and meet south central deer. The plot coincidences are part of the film's whole theology, "Darwin, shit happens, iChing," we die by improvising at the end of a fatalistic folktale of such coincidences, the soul expiring into a sky turned purple with polluted light.