Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Secret Level - Warhammer 40,000: And They Shall Know No Fear 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  I thought we were past the days of streamers compulsively lighting money on fire, but... apparently not?

  I just cannot wrap my head around the financial rationale for something like this. Except perhaps that Amazon has literally stopped caring *at all* because they've finally determined for sure that they will always have more money than God.

  Granted, Hidden Levels improves somewhat on the colossally impractical business model of Love Death and Robots by basing all its entries on video game…

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  Secret Level - PAC-MAN: Circle 2024

  ★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  This was originally an MCU fan film titled Groot Goes to Hell, but then it got leaked and Disney threatened "swift and unprecedented legal action", so they retrofitted the Pac-Man thing onto it instead and boy can you tell.

  But seriously folks, this made no damn sense and was kind of horrifying but also I got a kick out of it but also why would you do this?

Popular reviews

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  Unplanned 2019

  ★★½ Watched 30 Mar 2019 1

  Whenever I hear people in my conservative Christian milieu say "everyone should go SuPpORt tHiS m0viE," that's usually a strong signal to me to avoid said movie. And that's what people are saying about Unplanned. The first five minutes of the film basically confirmed my suspicions - sentimental, anemic, painfully cliche. But then the following five minutes took a hard left, and while that turn was not gracefully executed (and would be the first of several jarring tonal shifts), it…

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  Eighth Grade 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Aug 2018

  This film is fucking RADIANT. Adorable, agonizing, consoling and yet somehow almost totally believable. I say "almost," and withhold the half-star from a perfect rating, only because my cynical streak prevents me from entirely buying its feel-good ending. But I want so much to buy into it, and secretly I just might. It's extremely rare for me to come upon a film that is simultaneously so tremendously honest and so tremendously good-willed. It's a knockout. Watch it.

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