Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Truman Show 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  The Truman Show succeeds at something which marks a lot of the best science fiction- it realized and tapped into an undercurrent which wasn't really visible at the time. It realized how the increasing ubiquity of recording technologies would feed on the twinned hunger in the sub[urbs/conscious] of America after its Cold War victory for individualized authenticity and for security from anyone who might not have as much as us to spawn a generalized state of surveillance- not just by…

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Alfred Hitchcock revolutionized both film and American society as the first director to explore concepts from a little known Austrian pseudoscience called "Freudian psychology"- exposing many Americans to the idea that problems in life are mostly caused by feelings and ideas, and that feelings and ideas are mostly caused by women.

Popular reviews

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  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Apr 2023 3

  When the new Star Wars movies were coming out, I didn't think they were very good, but I did go see them- multiple times for some because of the differing friend groups that required independent viewings- and I enjoyed the experience. This trend has continued- I've watched the new Star Wars shows they've come out with, and I've had a good time.

  When the Hobbit movies were coming out, I went to see them- resentfully and once each. Rings of…

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  How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Oct 2022

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