Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mr. Thank You 1936

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Watching this on a bus in Japan was the 4D experience

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  Shuffle 1981

  Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Ishii is the kind of director whose scrappiness in getting badass films made is inspiring. I discovered him in film school, and it was inspiring to hear that he never graduated and instead just kept using the school equipment until he got kicked out. Watching a film like this he made when he was younger than me is a reminder to stop the excuses and make something I can be proud of. He's always done things his way and the movies speak for themselves.

Popular reviews

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  Vulcanizadora 2024

  Watched 09 Jun 2024

  Pure Michigan

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  Poor Things 2023

  Watched 20 Jan 2024 2

  Read the book for prep so my takeaways may be irrelevant to most Poor Things viewers. I wouldn’t say Yorgos does a bad job with the material, but watching this I couldn’t help think about how I would’ve handled a Poor Things adaptation, and would’ve taken pretty much an opposite approach (though I’d keep Robbie Ryan as DP in a heartbeat). This version strips the story of its Scottishness and leftism. Honestly, I‘m less shocked by the frank exploration of sexual politics than I would’ve been by the movie maintaining Bella’s support for John Maclean. Lame!