Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flesh and Fantasy 1943

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Cult Movie Challenge 12/52
  Film Noir Week
  A really well made and well acted piece of noir-style cinema, but none of the stories really grabbed me. The wraparound segment had some comedic moments and the second story was pretty intriguing in that old Twilight Zone way, but overall it wasn't my favorite film I've picked up. Still cool to see a "horror" adjacent anthology I'd never heard of. And like I said, it looks great.
  Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray

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  Adaptation. 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  365 Days of Nic Cage 19/106
  Cage Rating 🕺🕺🕺🕺

  Cage's performance here is great, as is basically everyone. This is a movie that I remember seeing trailers for and never seeing the movie. Then one day I picked up the blu-ray and it sat on my shelf for 9 years because I'm an idiot. This movie kicks ass. Very much an Ourobouros "snake eating it's tail" type of metacontextual thing, but it never climbs too far up it's own ass.…

Popular reviews

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  Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  Cult Movie Challenge 2025
  Week 1: Anime Week
  A bizarrely cute and offensive analysis of the destructive forces of capitalism done is a surrealistic and trippy fashion with extended sequences of exposition that reveal the evil forces of Catty & Co, which exist as a modern incarnation of the cult of Minerva, focused on destruction and rebirth. A lot of really trippy visuals break up scenes of exposition and these are the most exciting parts. We get sexual deviance, swearing Hello…

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  The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jul 2024

  Cult Movie Challenge (2024)

  Week 27: Jul 1-7
  Composer: Ennio Morricone Week

  I've seen a few Argento flicks and a handful of gialli but it was interesting diving into his first film and the one that kind of kicked off the Giallo boom. It felt a little formulaic, but being the origin means you will be copied a lot. I think the mystery part was fairly well done, I've just seen this particular mystery a few times now (all AFTER…