Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Rashomon 1950

  Watched 26 Mar 2025

  gave me jury duty flashbacks in a good way, and I weirdly got thrown for a loop by the medium (spent too long trying to figure out if she was faking and if she was playing an angle, instead of taking her at face value) but overall maybe my favorite Kurosawa? I go back and forth between this and seven samurai? So much more fun than I expected it would be too.

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  Planet of the Vampires 1965

  Watched 23 Mar 2025 2

  Whenever I watch an old sci-fi B movie and it turns out terrible, I wonder why I even like these kind of things, until I watch something like Planet of the Vampires and I remember why I'm obsessed with this stuff. I thought this was going to be empty fun sci-fi schlock, and it still kind of was, but I was surprised how much I genuinely liked this. I knew about the influence this had on Alien, but didn't expect…

Popular reviews

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  In the Mood for Love 2000

  Watched 06 Mar 2025

  The words "Charlie Brown adult" leapt unbidden into my brain whenever they showed their spouses as vague unseen figures and made me laugh, I'm sorry. This movie feels like looking in on things I shouldn't be seeing, when nothing all that explicit actually happens. It kind of makes me feel a little guilty for watching! I could tell there were subtle things I wasn't catching that I'm going to need to rewatch and look for at some point.

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  Tenet 2020

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  The closest I'll ever get to Nolan making a movie about wizards and I love it. I also think it's hilarious he equates radiation to magic in this and then immediately makes a biopic about the guy that invents the atom bomb. I don't know what to do with that info but I can't stop thinking about it.