Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  A slower, less interesting, forgettable remake of Coppola’s Dracula.

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  Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music 2025

  ★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  Lots of fun, amazing job by Questlove with the opening musical mashup/montage.

Popular reviews

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  Chimp Empire 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 May 2023

  One of the best, most enjoyable, most engaging, and most informative cinematic experiences I've ever had. My wife and I devoured it. It's extraordinarily beautiful and compelling. It's a story about two warring groups, replete with interesting characters and compelling drama. Scheming, backstabbing, loyalty, social climbing, bravery, cowardice. It's all there.

  Footage so close and personal it seems impossible (and in fact was only possible because these chimps have grown accustomed to human researchers in the area for 25 years).

  Extraordinary.

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  Tetris 2023

  ★★ Watched 01 Apr 2023 2

  Here’s a rare one: a 2-star film that I did enjoy. Here’s the thing: the further into the movie you go, the less “based on a true story” applies. It’s not a documentary, so sure, spice it up. Consolidate characters. Add some drama. But you either stick *pretty* close to the truth, or, you go full Charlie Kaufman and make it absurd. “Tetris” is trying to split the difference and I don’t think it made for a good third act.…