Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Peeping Tom 1960

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Aug 2024

  First watched this before I seriously got into film and thought it was great, but it’s even better than that.

  The three essentials of moviemaking: F for Fake (recreation; exploitation), Peeping Tom (obsession; desire), and Goodbye, Dragon Inn (decay; magic).

  “Take me to your cinema.” I can’t wait.

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  Train Again 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Jul 2024

  Cinema's desire to capture the motion of objects; to fit thousands of miles of road and thousands of tons of metal into a cramped 35mm frame; to find space where there is none.

  It's locomotion through leader. A constant drumbeat of steel pulsates through a hollow grey of American history. What do we desire more: the train (power and relocation) or the horse (space and freedom). Or, do we want both? Old methods to capture and steal from the new.…

Recent reviews

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  They Were Expendable 1945

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Blown away by the action sequences. There is nothing like this today. Nothing this bleak and exciting all in one.

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  Mister Roberts 1955

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Love that John Ford turns everything into a hangout movie.

Popular reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Imagining Soderbergh edit this in an uber: How many times can I break the 180-degree rule?

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★ Watched 24 Oct 2024 1

  Folie a Doo-Doo

  Caught the last showing and had to sit through 2 and a half hours of talking from an extremely high couple who rustled their sleeping bags every few seconds, yelled to each other, and then tried to talk to me once the movie ended.