Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Princess Mononoke 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Mar 2025

  Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.

  An amazing story, with more depth and nuance than entire shows. The 4K restoration is an incredible presentation of Miyazaki’s breathtaking artwork, and hearing the sound in imax speakers was perfection. 

  If you haven’t seen Princess Mononoke yet, you’re missing out. The care and attention put into every detail (of which there are countless), from flickers of fire and individual blades of…

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  Woman of the Hour 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  The horror-movie level tension in that parking lot scene is so true to life. A brutal serial killer finds time between murders to go on a dating show. Oh and this is all real by the way. Anna Kendrick keeps it tight and really does a serial killer movie right, without glamorizing the killer.

Popular reviews

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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  “They told us to stay out of politics.”

  Worldwide geopolitical relationships and schemes explode in the 1960s, centralized in the Congo. Now imagine all of this layered into and around jazz performances. Incredibly well put together from archival footage, Nikita Khrushev’s audio memoirs, Congolese novels and more. 

  I have to say this one grew on me. It was a lot of information to process in the beginning but as the documentary progressed and my grasp of what was happened strengthened, I thought it just got better and better.

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  Wander to Wonder 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  My favorite of the Oscar nominated animated shorts. Twisted and unexpected without being  horror. The fourteen minute runtime had me enthralled the entire time.