Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  crowdpleaser

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  I Married a Witch 1942

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  "Dudley, I've married a witch! What am I going to do?"

  Let's gooooooo

Popular reviews

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  Alice 1988

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  I had some serious anxiety about Alice getting tetanus watching this. ALICE is filled to the brim with stuff: old stuff, worn stuff, rusty stuff. It's an aesthetic I can't recall ever seeing exactly like this before. The film's fascination with decrepit objects produces a nightmarish effect when juxtaposed with a child wandering through its world. For instance, the white rabbit of Lewis Carroll's original text is in ALICE a ripped taxidermied rabbit, spilling and eating his sawdust guts wherever…

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  Faust 1926

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  I was amazed by the scale of this film. The special effects are crazy good-- I was unsure how several of the shots were created. The film is bookended by conversations between God and Satan, and it doesn't resort to abstraction. The pacing's a little wonky, and the film could benefit from a tighter running time, but when it's firing on all cylinders FAUST (1926) is like few films I've seen. The summoning of Mephisto scene is especially dope.