Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Tetris 2023

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Great, more of the same regurgitated portrayals of Soviet Russia in a brand biopic but this time in the context of the beloved culture of video games!! It feels like there was so much left out, it was so awkwardly paced, and the most redeeming aspect were the performances. Egerton deserves a prestige piece.

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  The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar 1969

  ★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  All of these NFBoC films I have seen have a unique personality that I can’t describe better than chocking them up to comfortably domestic, naturalistic, and familiar. Their plots aren’t anything more than simplistic but this is a strength if anything. The environments of this film are so, so gorgeous and display a rural setting in the most beautiful image as possible. Margot Kidder was an absolute stunner, it was frankly most of what I was thinking about for the…

Popular reviews

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  The Bad Sleep Well 1960

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2024

  A glorious, near flawless film. Worthy of being next to The Simpsons Movie on my shelf.

  An ambitious, brooding take on the ideas of corruption, hatred, justice, and most notably revenge. What aspects of retribution are good and which are bad? Is revenge one or the other? This sort of “gray morality” to this idea is something highlighted impressively well in The Bad Sleep Well. Being set in postwar Japan, one of my personal favorite periods for films (because of…

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jul 2024

  An interesting take on the generational gap between silent films and talkies and stardom. A little overacted in some regards, maybe, but just a product of its time is all. Despite this, it even seems slightly ahead of its time in the manner in which it creates an engaging thriller story from a perspective that seems both first and third person, telling it from Gillis’ view of things as the story unfolds with additional context through a seemingly omnipresent narration from Gillis’ mind. Lots of twists, turns, and shifts. Certainly interesting. A great watch and definitely a must-see classic.