Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  One & Two 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Andrew Droz Palermo's single directorial effort,One & Two, follows a pair of siblings with fantastical powers forced to a hidden life with their abusive parents. I've always found the exploration of supernatural ability on a small scale fascinating, something this film explores very well with two excellent performances.

  Eva (Kiernan Shipka) and Zac (Timothée Chalamet) live on a remote farm under the watchful eye of their withering mother (Elizabeth Reaser) and abusive father (Grant Bowler). Eva and Zac have the ability…

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  Scary Movie 2 2001

  ★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Not quite my style of humor. I want to get through the Scary Movie franchise because it has some cultural relevance, but I ultimately think almost all of this series is going to fall flat for me if it's anything like Scary Movie 2. It's just too obvious and stupid!

  It's just not funny. I was eating food while watching this, and a lot of the jokes revolve around being generally disgusting. I hate gross-out humor. Anna Faris' character sucks…

Popular reviews

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  Sid Is Dead 2023

  ★★★ Watched 30 Apr 2023 1

  Sid is Dead was filmed in 2018 and released on April 28th, 2023. With five years of development hell and zero marketing, I wonder what working on movies like this is like. Hundreds of people put their time and effort into this; how can nobody be talking about this online? Does the studio care? Do the actors? Does the director or writer? I very sincerely don't understand how it's possible that thousands of dollars can be spent on a project…

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  Code 8 Part II 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  Jeff Chan's 2019 thriller Code 8 is an underrated modern science fiction film. After a crowdfunded campaign led to a feature adaptation of his 2016 short film, the film was released to modest reviews. To see it get a sequel five years later is certainly a surprise. It's fun, interesting, and slick. If you haven't seen it and discovered its existence because of Netflix's release of Code 8: Part II, I'd wholeheartedly recommend you watch both that and this film!…