Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  the magic of the movies

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 10 Feb 2025

  Dunderheaded boomer catnip, but still a reasonably enjoyable romp if you can tune out the extremely irritating score. I can't imagine watching it not in a cinema and still being able to pay attention. Prime second screen fare - first screen obviously being an iPad.

Popular reviews

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Aug 2023

  Feels like an artistic achievement way way beyond what any artist should be capable of in the normal regular world we live in.

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  Evil Dead II 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Aug 2020

  Few movies have thrilled me like this, and the thrills for me here were mostly from the fact that this damn movie is absolutely brimming with pure, passionate filmmaking energy. Sam Raimi's creative brilliance soaks through every single witty, mind-bending shot of this movie, which ends up being the perfect distillation of a love of a range of American B-sources, chiefly from shoddy '50s TV adventure acting and schlocky slasher horror. Though that's far too reductive: this film is wholly…