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Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Mulholland Drive
  • The Idiots
  • The Thing

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  • Twin Peaks

    ★★★★★

  • Jason X

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • The Making of the Return of the King

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  • Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

    ★★★★★

    Season 2 rewatch

    — They have women agents?
    — More or less 

    Loved Duchovny’s addition to the cast, David Lynch himself, everything around Albert, the insurance fraud subplot, and for some reason, even the Dick and Andy storyline. We got some of the best dialogues here — Agent Briggs and Bobby, Albert and Sheriff Truman.

    But there were storylines I absolutely didn’t need. James has always been cool, sure. Which is exactly why we didn’t need his uncool affair with…

  • Jason X

    Jason X

    I watched this for Cronenberg — he’s in it for like two minutes and still manages to be the best thing in the film.

    I’ve only seen the original Friday the 13th — how on earth did they end up making this as part of the franchise???

    A goofy pile of crap wrapped in shit — but not in a BAD bad way, more like an “I can watch it if I don’t take it seriously” kind of way.

    P.S. Imagine someone mistaking it for Malcolm X 

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  • Cellar Door

    Cellar Door

    ★½

    I dived into it not knowing the plot or genre, entirely for Scott Speedman (is it a supernatural horror? A thriller, perhaps?).

    The truth turned out to be so much worse than I could ever imagine — it’s one fucking stupid movie.

    Quite an easy watch, though.

  • Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

    I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but I was an hour into Inland Empire when I opened Twitter and saw the news about David Lynch. It’ll take me a while to collect myself before I can continue.

    I remember seeing Twin Peaks for the first time 16 years ago — pirated, of course. It was one of the earliest things I ever watched in English without subtitles. It was winter, the central heating was cranked up, and Angelo Badalamenti’s…