Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Philadelphia Story 1940

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  So a cool thing about my job is that I got to take a group of film students to see this for the first time on 35mm at the New Beverly in LA and then got to listen to them gush over it, break down and analyze the style, and just fall madly in love with Katharine Hepburn and/or Jimmy Stewart, who is the hottest man of all time in this, my god, Cary fucking Grant of all people standing next to him the whole time looking like Elmer Fudd.

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Went from Alien: Promusing to Alien: Tedius* right around the time that the unholy monstrosity (CGI Ian Holm) showed up but lore because it just, as these things tend to do, devolved into an inferior remake of every previous entry at once. 

  * I don’t know if that makes as much sense as I wanted it to, I watched this on a plane and typed this as we landed and I was trying to keep from vomiting from motion sickness.

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  Watched 25 Jan 2025

  The American Dream isn’t dead, it’s a spoiled Russian shitson who can’t look mommy in the eye when she gets angry, and we’re all just its playthings.

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  Watched 29 Dec 2024

  There was a time in my life when I felt like all I had were the shows and movies that I loved. This movie depicts like no other the fear, sadness, and horror that can reveal itself at the center of that kind of relationship with media: the feeling that there’s a world beyond the one you know but to which you’ll never be able to escape, a life truer than your own that you’ll nevertheless remain unable to live…