Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Rehearsals for Retirement 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  James Cameron should just film the next Avatar in GTA

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  Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine 2005

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  For my money, probably one of the most essential iterations on the “filmmaking and spectatorship as an act of violation and violence” thesis, I think in no small part because it finds its footage in the genre of the Roman Western. Whether it be through intense splicing, aggressive moment, or casting shadows in the negative, Tscherkassky strips all entities away from their environments and trappings, until even that becomes insufficient and the only thing left is to enforce the end reel. Greek tragedy doesn’t even come close

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★ Watched 06 Aug 2023 2

  There was a collective groan in the theater when the Mattel logo appeared at the beginning and I think that pretty much sums up the discourse

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  Eraserhead 1977

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  Thinking of that tweet he made about discovering he’s connected to the moon… cut to the opening of this film with Jack Nance overlayed on top of the moon leading in to one of the most artistically accomplished odes to conception of all forms.

  Like many other things, Lynch saw from the very beginning the curse of being unremovable from your own ideas, the fear of being trapped in your bad ones, the transience of your good ones. This film…