Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chocolate 2008

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  lol with all apologies to Cemetery of Splendor (the Thai film I had planned on watching for maw2025), but I was in a bad mood and needed something dumb and uplifting.

  I found what I was looking for.

  This was insane, as highlighted by the gnarliest post credit blooper reel I've ever seen. The first half was a solid 6: fun, but nothing really new brought to the table. Now the back half? What a doozy. Fights on fights on…

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  Corpo Celeste 2011

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  More like Culto Celeste amirite?

  Thankful to have attended a progressive Catholic school.

  My third Rohrwacher, and I'll admit there's absolutely something entrancing about what she does, even if I don't think I actually like the films?

  I hope the guy on the motorbike burns in hell.

  Coming of age stories are not cathartic to me. They are horror stories. More often than not, I find nothing redeeming in them at all. I'm sure this spoke to a lot of…

Popular reviews

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  All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs 2021

  Watched 13 Mar 2022

  A story told in five acts where everyone dies at the end? This is truly Shakespeare.

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  Downs of the Dead 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 04 Dec 2020

  A great example of what it looks like to laugh with someone and not at someone.