Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Sniper 1952

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025 3

  Asa the cat sees all your sins.

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  Deranged 1974

  ★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Not a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker production, but certainly composed with their crisp, deadpan efficiency. Sometimes intentionally comical, sometimes unintentionally comical. Sometimes legitimately ghoulish, but not enough.
  If Ed Gein didn't exist, he'd have to have been invented so that Roberts Blossom could play him.
  Crazy that I (currently aged 53) am older than Blossom was at the time. Do I look like that?
  Barry Convex sighting! Leslie Carlson repeatedly breaking the fourth wall as Our No-Nonsense Intrepid Narrator is such a goofy conceit. John Larroquette's faceless voice-over in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre works so much better.

Popular reviews

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  Fire of Love 2022

  ½ Watched 12 Nov 2022 2

  Miranda July's raspy ASMR whisper is trying to kill me, please help.
  I can't overstate how badly her narration scars the movie. I don't know what the filmmakers were thinking here. As many others have pointed out, a perfectly fine movie could have been made without any voice-over at all. Mind-boggling bad decision to go this route.

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  S/He Is Still Her/e - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary 2024

  Watched 16 Nov 2024

  Did not know that when Genesis's youngest daughter would wake up crying from nightmares when she was little, she'd know Genesis was coming to comfort her by the sound of he/r metal genital piercings jangling down the hallway!
  Did not know that Genesis barely survived a fire at Rick Rubin's house where s/he was staying with Love and Rockets! "I was in a fire at Rick Rubin's house with Love and Rockets and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"…

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