Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Streetwise 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  Absolutely gobsmacked by the humanity on display here. Loved it.

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  Zëiram 1991

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2024

  Kooky action flick with little characterization and a really hot lady warrior who fights off slimy Cronenbergian monsters. Effects were better than expected - would recommend to monster fans.

Popular reviews

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  The People's Joker 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Apr 2024

  Watched this at the Texas Theater with writer/director/protag Vera Drew in attendance for a Q&A after the film.

  I loved it. It’s fucking great. It has all the bravery and playfulness and inventiveness of an excellent French New Wave film, just throwing things at the screen one after another, never pausing to take a breath.

  The visual style is decidedly anti-Hollywood, messy, inconsistent, and made of a hundred different animated textures, characters and settings. Every animated sequence is by a…

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  Cecil B. Demented 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024 1

  -Easily my fav John Waters film, by a LARGE margin
  -Love the part about parents being the enemy of cinema
  -"We're horny...but our film comes first"
  -The character intros are iconic, I get why they're on Tik Tok
  -Love the masc/butch PA/producer/fixer character with little chin hairs