Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Drive My Car 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2023

  What a wonderful movie to watch at the end of the year. The credits only appear after an elongated prelude, as most of this film is about making peace with the past and learning to let go of such a large part of yourself. It contemplates releasing elements of control as Kafuku allows others to read his dialogue, interpret his story, and finish his wife's secret stories... he finds scattered pieces of the answer he was looking for, but a…

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  Knightriders 1981

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Dec 2023

  “One of these days the blackbirds are gonna get me.”
  
  This movie is a little too long, a little too repetitive with its cinematography and choreography, but it goes to great lengths to sell you on the familial connections made by this cosplaying motorcycle troop, and it succeeds in hitting hard for those who value a found family. Each member has joined ‘our little Camelot’ for a different reason, and along the way they face the threats of police disruption,…

Recent reviews

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  Asako I & II 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  "So I spent every day since then chasing Amy, so to speak."

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  Monster 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Rashomon meets Moonlight. The emotional and tonal pivot that happens in act three completely reinvents this movie. Ryuichi Sakamoto is a god. Let the kids be.

Popular reviews

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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Nov 2020 1

  Love... A concept that cannot be described by one person. An idea that you must feel for yourself to truly understand... One that we can only try to explain through our infinite forms of communication, television, books, art. And I think "Her" does a pretty great job.

  This movie attempts to bring us closer to an understanding of the word love through the intricacies of Theodore's life. His divorce, his dating attempts, through his friends marriage, and his newfound love in the…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jun 2023

  Gwen Stacy drumming away her feelings to a fast-cutting watercolor collage of all the events of the first movie, her story as Gwen and Spider-Woman, and everything in between that she can’t face or let go of…what an opera of an opening for this smash hit master work of a movie. 

  The focus on Gwens universe really make it feel like her movie. Her stinging attitude with her dad, being distanced from her friends, all her complicated feelings and running…