Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 2006

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Had a blast watching this at the sold-out Music Box screening with my pals. Miscellaneous thoughts:

  -They don't make blockbusters like this anymore. With all of its absurd dialogue delivery and incoherent race scenes, the film has a distinct style, shot on film (and presented in Cinemascope at our screening) and perfectly paired with its soundtrack. It is highly kinetic, but lacks the overabundance of CGI and compounding predictable plot twists we associate with its modern counterpart. The style falters…

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  Crash 1996

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2025

  Well!

  Crash mirrors the manner in which our society has rerouted the direction of natural human desire with stand-in fetishized objects of the market. We are conditioned over the course of our lives to covet the material, to conflate our identities with the sum of these parts, to address our needs with these aims only to be continually dissatisfied with the actual net result. And yet we retain the motivational framework, continuing our course towards these same dead ends.

  Crash…

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  Speed 1994

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2025 1

  In which Dennis Hopper develops a multimedia exhibit for MoMA consisting of assorted monitors, televisions, and one (1) mannequin.

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  Basic Instinct 1992

  ★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  "It's called suspension of disbelief", Catherine Tramell tells us early in the film, describing just how she has become intimately comfortable with the art of emulating truth where there is none. Both we and Michael Douglas' Nick Curran first remain steadfast in our estimation of the apparent truth, amused by the clear manipulation we see in the character's machinations. But by the tail end of the film, both he and the viewer begin questioning who's testimony we believe, revising our…

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