Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 13 Mar 2025 1

  I genuinely didn’t know until this movie that they made Hollywood black magic filters with diffusion strengths in the double digits 

  Hateful Eight for Feeld users? 

  Really great, really solid dialogue and funny with the most convoluted plot, but it’s a good time. Steven redeemed himself after Presence, thank god.

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  Say Anything... 1989

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Not since watching Twilight at the SIFF Egyptian last year have I had such an enjoyable movie going experience, until this. It’s always been an all time favorite, and seeing it again now brought a smile to my face during the entire run time, not only for its love of Seattle culture, young love/angst, and a really beautiful blend of sincerity and charm to the story, but most importantly its character writing, and the unbelievably iconic performances from Ione Skye,…

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Despite some fun stuff in the middle, it’s just a wince inducing experience. An odd mix of SNL sketches and the last 5 minutes of Don’t Look Up

  Good palette cleanser for BJH I guess? 

  The trailers containing only double concepts was like a threat to me

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  Presence 2024

  Watched 16 Jan 2025

  To see this the same day David Lynch dies is something sardonically poetic. 

  Steven Soderbergh does the impossible by taking filmmaking backwards 20 years, fumbling through his own Megalopolis prank piece.  Astonishingly incompetent, dull, derivative, and only in parts hilariously stupid, Soderbergh takes an 80-ish minute haunted house rape drama and makes it longer than the runtime of The Brutalist. 

  Henry and I stayed for the live QA, which was such a drunken train wreck from the no sound checks…