Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  28 Days Later 2002

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  When the apocalypse has you down, nothing better than an ice cold Tango, by Pepsi Co., to cheer you up.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  It was fun

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  First viewing. SA discussed. 

  I’m glad Robert Eggers exists, is research oriented and occult obsessed. Another beautiful film that works taken literally, but I’m predisposed to schizophrenic thinking so let me pose a barely coherent theory. 

  I read a feminist analysis of The Witch a while ago, and I think that subconsciously raised my hackles for all Eggers’ flicks. The half-baked theory: Eggers turned Nosferatu into a story of assault/sexual trauma and an individual’s journey of understanding, reconciliation and justice. …

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  Origin 2023

  ★ Watched 08 Jan 2024

  It feels strange to hate this movie so much. I agree with its thesis, but this is just a really terribly made movie. It’s been re-edited and shelved for unknown reasons. Did focus groups scare the studio? Something must’ve gone wrong. 

  There’s a total failure to balance two competing aspects of the film: the protagonist’s personal life and her anthropological research. The film begins with a long, very personal story of loss and fails to smoothly transition into a didactic…

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