Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Brooklyn 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The English Patient 1996

  ★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Bit of a slog but has some beautiful cinematography.

Popular reviews

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  Miami Vice 2006

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Jul 2021

  I suspect every time I rewatch this I’m gonna fall in love more. The first time I watched this the go-fast-boat-to-Cuba scene didn’t work for me. This second time through, I couldn’t wait for it. It’s the essence of the film distilled to 15 minutes. Vast shots of ocean. Sexy boats. Sweaty dancing. Rum-based cocktails. Farrell and Li’s chemistry. Sex so good you cry. And, the greatest line in c i n e m a: “I’m a fiend for mojitos.” It’s all there.

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  Woodstock '99 2000

  ★★★ Watched 06 Sep 2021 1

  Entertaining and well made documentary. It’s still to blame toxic masculinity culture or to imply Fred Durst incited a riot.

  It was shitty logistics. Bad sanitation, concessions, bad security etc. Metallica, Rage, RHCP, even Limp Bizkit have performed with no issues at well run festivals for the past 22 years. These hundreds of thousands of white boy concert goers didn’t invent rape culture or setting fires lol. 

  The concert promoter guy blaming Fred Durst for singing his famous song about breaking stuff has big scorpion-and-the-frog vibes. 

  Also, the Rage and Metallic sets looked sick. Sucks the water was $4 a bottle.