Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Memoria 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Jun 2022 2

  Before the movie I got into a conversation with a homeless ex-con who told me about how long and unending the nights are when you have nowhere to sleep. How vulnerable it feels to have to let your guard down and risk everything you have in order to make it to the next day. In order to survive, he said, you have to become invisible. They are the invisible people. But if you know where to look, you will see.…

Recent reviews

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  The Honeybears 2023

  Rewatched 21 Mar 2025 1

  Only real ones know about this

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  HEX 2023

  Rewatched 21 Mar 2025 2

  One of my more recent little atmospheric shorts – screened tonight courtesy of Program Council and GUT-C at The University of Colorado Boulder, and showing again next week as part of the New Voices program at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

  Available to watch here if you’re interested

Popular reviews

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Apr 2019 17

  I don't say this lightly: this may be the scariest film ever made.

  One of my biggest pet peeves since I started getting into movies around 5 years ago has been hearing that damn word over and over again: terrifying.

  “He gives a terrifying performance.”
  “What a terrifying villain!”
  “Did you see that part when that thing happened? Wow! That was terrifying!”

  This word is tossed around so often to describe anything the least bit uncomfortable or tense, that it has lost…

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  The Master 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Sep 2016 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.