Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Winnebago Man 2009

  ★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  In his narcissistic approach as both a viewer and a documentarian, Ben Steinbauer makes the assumption that this ill-fated Winnebago commercial must be the defining event in Jack Rebney’s life, solely because it is how he first came to know and understand the man. He alludes to the idea that Rebney has been humiliated by this video and suggests it’s strange and unusual for the man to be living by himself in the woods when, but from what it appears,…

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  Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I appreciate how it fully comes into its own as a unique film celebrating its own musical tradition, but the soundtrack always sounds like it could be *just* on the verge of breaking into Purple Rain.

Popular reviews

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  Endless Love 1981

  ★ Watched 24 Jul 2018

  Tom Cruise appears for roughly 60 seconds in jorts laughing maniacally about setting fires. Everything else is pretty fucking bad.

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  The Phantom of the Opera 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Sep 2018 1

  Obsessive incel lives rent-free in basement and becomes a terrorist because the girl he stalks tries to let him down lightly.