Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Deadly Affair 1967

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  A movie that dares to ask the question, what if James Bond was a cuck?

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  Hooper 1978

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  At its core, Hooper is about an violent, abusive, misogynistic, alcoholic, narcissist who succeeds in creating an dangerous and toxic workplace.

Popular reviews

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Dec 2020 1

  In a few years, people will look back and realize this is Nolan's masterpiece. Tenet is a film that engages directly with the forth dimension and the result is a time travel film that feels like no other.

  To say Christopher Nolan is obsessed with time, memory and narrative is an understatement. So much of his work deals with how the mind perceives the world. Tenet feels like a culmination of the themes central to Memento, The Prestige and Inception…

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  Spetters 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2021

  My initial reaction to this film was it's Verhoeven doing the teen coming of age genre. That's at least how the film starts and how it was sold, but by the end the viewer is left with a complex and difficult look at masculinity and male identity.

  I've read a number of reviews on this site that compared Spetters to Showgirls, noting that they were similar thematically and in their use of melodrama. This couldn't be further from the truth.…