Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Modern Times 1936

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  A triumph, funny from start to finish.

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  Stunning viewing, featuring an incredibly sharp and twisting plot and also an incredibly sharp coffee table.

Popular reviews

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  Chilly Dogs 2001

  ★★ Rewatched 29 May 2024

  Oh Chilly Dogs, I was much too harsh on you. The epic tale of a holiday broker who must travel to the frozen north and reclaim his family’s heritage, hounded at every turn by a nefarious Englishman, Leslie Nielsen (who briefly disguises as a taxi driver in a beat that is never revisited) and his own ancestry - but also a crippling inability to shit for a surprisingly long time.

  I don’t think Skeet Ulrich is a comic actor, especially…

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  Luggy 2016

  ½ Watched 07 Apr 2023

  There is no way this film wasn’t made by some deranged, malicious AI keen to destroy my love of animation as an art form. This film has made me distrust abandoned luggage in airports even more than I already have thanks to 9/11. This film made me think about September 11th and say “you know maybe there’s a reason they destroy lost luggage”. The terrible soundtrack is the greatest piece of outsider music since Christian and the Hedgehog Boys. Irritating…

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