Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf 2009

  ★★ Watched 02 Oct 2018

  This movie is set up as a "lost" 70s exploitation picture, complete with fake film grain and missing frames and variable film stock. I've always hated that—why not just make your 70s exploitation picture without the metatextual frills? Director Kurando Mitsutake would in fact go on to do that in his next two features (Gun Woman and Karate Kill), both of which weren't just homages to Japanese exploitation movies, they were the real thing, and were much more fun than…

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  WAR 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Nov 2019

  Mongolian thriller about three childhood friends who come together as adults to deal with a problem, really can't describe the plot in more detail without tipping some things. This is a very low budget production but it is very high ambition in story and narrative structure—not everything worked, but most did, and it was impossible for me to get ahead of the plot at any point in the story, it's really well conceived. This is exactly the kind of movie I keep hoping to find when rummaging through the dusty corners of streaming services. I found this on tubi, and you should too.

Recent reviews

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  Squad 36 2025

  ★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Slow paced thriller about a disgraced cop investigating the deaths of his former teammates. Not a lot happens, and the movie takes its time getting there. It is deeply cynical and has a very French ending, both of which raise this movie above the "forgettable" category, although not by much.

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  Counterattack 2025

  ★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  A group of special forces badasses cross paths with a group of criminals. There's a lot more writing than you normally get in these types of movies, if that's your thing. It's not really my thing, my thing is more the action, which was decent. The last 30 minutes of this movie is a siege, which will earn any movie 3 stars from me.

  It ends on a wet fart, where one of the previously invincible badasses suddenly has a…

Popular reviews

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  Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance 1972

  ★★★★ Rewatched 01 Aug 2017

  The only movie that has the balls to begin with the hero decapitating a toddler.

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  Imprint 2006

  ★★ Watched 28 Sep 2017 1

  In all of Takashi Miike's filmography, or even in the history of horror films, I cannot think of anything as unsettling, as disturbing, as terrifying as Billy Drago's line readings.