Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Such a blast, absolutely hit the spot on Tuesday movie night

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  Mothers' Instinct 2024

  Watched 09 Jan 2025

  Absolutely my kind of potboiling melodrama. Apparently not for everyone but boy howdy did I love seeing these ladies go nuts.

Popular reviews

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  Watched 21 Apr 2023 1

  With Hereditary and Midsommer, Ari Aster’s star has been on the rise for the past few years. Distilling and developing the subgenres of Satanic and folk horror respectively, they both were unqualified critical and commercial successes. The dynamite work studio A24 has been doing with securing the streaming rights for films in their library has had no small impact, as both have thus far been the modern-day equivalent of “home-video hits.” Given all of this, it is hardly shocking that…

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  The Pajama Game 1957

  Rewatched 23 Feb 2024

  There must have been a top to bottom remastering and color correction on this at some point because it looks SO gorgeous now. The romance is still ridiculous and kinda unethical but there’s so much joy and color in this movie that it doesn’t matter. The Fosse stagings are incredible and Day has the power of a million suns in her face and voice.

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