Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mad Max 1979

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Jun 2023 2

  There is something hypnotic about Max's origin story for me. I've seen it several times now and it always grabs me right away and keeps pulling me back in. It's obviously not as high octane, fast moving as the sequels, but the rawness and simplicity of what's going on here just works so well. I'm obsessed with the shots of driving, the changing perspectives from the road, to behind the wheel/handlebars. I also appreciate more and more the fine line of hyper masculine homoeroticism that is inherent to the Mad Max universe. This film franchise is synonymous with the summer for me.

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  Akira 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Jun 2023

  Beautiful, visceral and heady. I can't believe I never watched this before, it has so many things that I love in it. Post-apocalyptic critique of man's hubris, underprivileged savage youth as the heroes, 80s anime fits. The body horror was a bit too much and the old kids were unsettling but I'm sure that's the point so I wouldn't want them taken out. I certainly recognize the place this holds in film canon and I'm very glad to have it in my vocabulary.

Popular reviews

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  Donnie Darko 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Oct 2022 2

  I've been wanting to watch this for a long time and I really enjoyed in. Jake Gyllenhaal is captivating. The ambiguousness of the ending and the movie as a whole allows you to take what you want from the themes/message. Is it literal or metaphorical? Either way, it stirs the mind through a wonderful mix of teenage drama and psychological unrest.

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  Spider-Man 2002

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 12 Sep 2021

  So nostalgic, so dynamic and grounded while also being fantastical and comic book-y. It's just so damn good.