Fancy Pete

Fancy Pete

Favorite films

  • The Saddest Music in the World
  • The Killer
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Simple Men

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  • Kraven the Hunter

    ★★★

  • No Time for Love

    ★★★

  • Venom: The Last Dance

  • Nadja

    ★★★★

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  • Kraven the Hunter

    Kraven the Hunter

    ★★★

    Saw this like two days ago and already forgot a lot of it and, sure, I might prefer to watch a movie that’s “good” or at least has “scenes that are in an order that makes sense*” or feels less like a tv show where they accidentally mixed up all the scripts (including one written by a bot trained on mansophere ebooks) but, like Morbius and Madame Web and (a little less-so) Venom before it, this gets to what I…

  • No Time for Love

    No Time for Love

    ★★★

    Some really funny scenes in this–especially the one where Colbert tries to break up a bar brawl by teaching everyone how to play musical chairs instead and it turns into a musical chairs brawl. I think the script is trying to do a typical story about how an evil wealthy woman is surrounded by men who have been feminized by modernity and education, so when she meets an also evil but poor half-nude Irish American guy with no class who…

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  • Lost Highway

    Lost Highway

    ★★★★

    V funny that everyone in the Balthazar Getty section of this movie dresses rockabilly (my fav joke in this is when his parents come to pick him up at jail and they’re wearing motorcycle jackets and sunglasses) and everyone in Bill Pullman’s world dresses like a magician hanging out at the bar in The Magic Castle. That’s what Hollywood is really like.

    For various reasons, most likely because Lynch hadn’t released a movie in five years, but partially because the…

  • I'm a Virgo

    I'm a Virgo

    ★★★★

    Just deleted a whole thing where I was trying to explain the mechanics in how drawing and / or reading comics is a complex experience to unpack and is basically indistinguishable from magic, and of course, I was coming across like if Grant Morrison had a sad adult son who was still blogging on Livejournal because no one had told him yet that it wasn’t still 2006. So I’ll just say that this show felt to me like one of…

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