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Film school graduate. Late-diagnosed autistic. Physical media addict.

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The Final Girls 2015

★★★★★ Watched 08 Oct 2019

Todd Schlauss-Schulson’s The Final Girls (heretofore referred to as Girls) is a film filled with boobie traps. Taking on a spoof of slasher films years after Scream and Cabin in the Woods already landed their knock-out blows is a bold move. Even as trope heavy as the horror genre is (The Final Girl being one of its most dominant), finding a path that isn’t worn three feet into the dirt seems near impossible in the age of hyper aware Film…
Wounds 2019

★★★★ Watched 14 Oct 2019

If you wanted to manufacture the personification of tall, dark, and handsome in a lab, the result would likely resemble Armie Hammer. He's so infuriatingly good-looking, even his voice is handsome, and that doesn’t even make sense (but it totally makes perfect sense). So, his casting as Will, the "man’s man" at the center of Babak Anvari’s new film, Wounds, could not have been more spot-on. A proud Tulane drop-out, Will makes his bones bartending at Rosie’s, a New Orleans…

Melancholia 2011

★★★★★ Watched 08 Jul 2019

One of the greatest depictions of depression I've ever seen. Equally important for how it illustrates how we react, often dismissively, to the mentally ill. Kirsten Dunst is so damn good in this. I can't imagine another day going by where I don't think about this film.
The Wailing 2016

★★★★ Watched 11 Oct 2023

Odd and surprising with two exquisitely edited sequences that I'll never forget. Probably too long, but most movies are. And the climax is masterful. Good shit.