Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Fishing with John 1991

  Watched 24 Jan 2025

  one of the weirdest things you could've been to me in my adolesence is the kid who didn't have cable. a kid i knew had hippy parents from chicago and their entire family was big on pbs. this fool would bring up shit like the red green show. "tom green show?" i would say. then he would go on to explain a zamboni sketch he saw. it didn't sound very appealing. most of the shows he brought up didn't. even…

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  Love 2014

  Watched 21 Jan 2025

  There are documentaries that are good films and then there are documentaries that are good. Then there’s the more involved and divisive kind: documentaries that hit a special interest g spot. Larry Wessel has never not perfectly ran himself into this category for me. What he always nails is capturing the inspiration of his subjects. I think this is his obsession and why so many of his films get criticized for their editing. He just cannot cut this person he…

Popular reviews

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  Ween: Live in Chicago 2004

  Watched 19 Jul 2018

  the sentiment in she fucks me makes it one of the most humanist romantic songs ever btw

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  Firebreather 2010

  Watched 07 Jan 2018

  my friend once had one of those weird nostalgia analytical theories that I always had trouble 100% agreeing with: weird kids were always more into cartoon network than nickolodeon. that sorta can be agreed with but i watched both at different houses that had different cable services, fucking desert cable. but it's true that cartoon network was always more devoted to being in the spirit of contributing to cartoons, not necessarily high expense or wide appeal disneyism that nickolodeon eventually…