My contribution to the wonderful world of online film discourse
Top 4 changes often!
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
Mickey 17 2025
On a basic level, there are a ton of things here that are completely antithetical to my interests—specifically the overt quirkiness of it all, working in conjunction with the obvious satire—but overall, this is another fine entry in the canon of goofy Gilliam-esque sci-fi that seems to have become director Bong's English-language trademark and a significant breakthrough in the world of Funny Voices™ and Silly Bits™.
Buoyed by an incredibly zany Robert Pattinson (who once again proves to be a…
Translated from by -
Nosferatu 2024
A shadowy duet between the necrotic and the erotic—by far the ghastliest romance of the year, a rotting corpse and a melancholic woman bonded together by their mutual desire in the most unholy way possible. Stripped of the swooning gothic romanticism, Eggers posits the vampire as the all-consuming parasitic demon of folklore, a being of unquenchable desire + lust that cannot be stopped by man. Unsurprisingly, I succumbed to this version pretty much instantly (though that incredible opening scene certainly…
Translated from by
Recent reviews
More-
Fight or Flight 2024
The dirtbag DTV version of Bullet Train (Bullet Plane?) that ends up being… surprisingly fun? Hartnett commits whole-heartedly to the loathsome merc persona, as well as shows off some solid stunt choreography—the rest of the characters are mostly reduced to half-formed archetypes, though I can’t deny that I did like that the girl from Bridgerton s2—and several moments of bone-crunching violence. The only real moment of real zaniness was when this randomly detours into Heroic Bloodshed for like 5 minutes; that…
Translated from by -
Borderline 2025
You’d be surprised by how solid a film can be when anchored by two performers as innately charismatic as Samara Weaving (an honest-to-god scream queen) and Ray Nicholson (a burgeoning scream king, who leans a bit more into his dad’s old personas here), both of whom display a willingness to lean into the “sardonic murder-y nonsense” vibes of this desperately-quirky stalker horror that falls just shy of the mark.
This is certainly not the equal of Ready or Not or Smile 2;…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
Dune: Part Two 2024
Hearing The Voice™ in IMAX is genuinely why the format was created in the first place.
Translated from by -
Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
A passionate, haunting rumination on the depth and complexity of American evil. It may not have been Scorcese’s story to tell, but the way in which he chooses to convey it—as a monstrous tragedy both grandiose in scale and deeply, horrifyingly intimate—belies his own personal belief in the necessity of this story. Amidst a number of career-best performances (Leo at his most loathsome and pathetic, De Niro’s best since the part of The Irishman where he isn’t a CGI ghoul), Lily…
Translated from by
