Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Love & Pop 1998

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  It's just nice to see yourself on screen sometimes (stinky man spitting all over the ground, fixated on what everyone in the video store is thinking about him and dripping with sweat)

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  Frozen 2010

  Watched 27 Feb 2025

  What if Gerry was cold/not slow cinema?

Popular reviews

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  Diary of a Mad Housewife 1970

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2017 1

  Miserabilist masterpiece about a New York housewife caught between two awful men and nightmarishly sophisticated, spoiled children. Acid tongued dialogue, amazing characterization. Intelligent black comedy seems to be the genre best suited for Perry's showy style and tendency to double down on any given tone of a scene, which isnt to say this is more restrained than his other work, though it is perhaps tighter. This one also has hands down the best ineffectual husband character ever committed to film, and Carrie Snodgress in the title role is amazing. My favorite Perry film so far, just a hair above Last Summer.

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  Scanners 1981

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Mar 2017 1

  In many ways the most straight forward of Cronenbergs early genre cerebral/visceral conflations, Scanners is also deceptively layered, inviting a myriad readings to a seemingly straight forward story (by Cronenberg standards anyways). If The Brood is about the anxieties of love and the domestic family unit (E.G. divorce) then Scanners is about the torments of friendship and our public lives, the elusivness of connection and the nightmare of what it means to be fully known. Since it's Cronenberg it is…