Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  GoodFellas 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  Dissonance, the movie

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  Synecdoche, New York 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  Seen on 35mm at 5th Ave Cinema in Portland, OR

  It's like someone told Charlie Kaufman he was making the last movie to ever be made

Popular reviews

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  Inherent Vice 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Jan 2015

  Read the final 60-or-so pages of the book earlier in the day, so this will be a reaction from that perspective. This is the fourth time I've seen the film.

  PT Anderson does a wondrous job translating this story. Almost all of the dialogue is transferred from the book, some of it cleverly moved and/or repurposed, but it's almost all there. Anderson does remove most of the political and social commentary from the book, choosing to focus on characters and…

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  Exorcism in Utero 2023

  Rewatched 28 May 2023

  Cast and crew screening at 5th Avenue Cinema in Portland, OR

  It's my movie so I'm not rating it.

  Screening went well. Got some good laughs. I was mostly bothered by technical issues which is my prerogative as the filmmaker.

  Check it out on Amazon Prime or Apple TV or Youtube or other streaming sites. It'll come to Tubi at some point.

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