Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Twilight 2008

  Watched 14 Jul 2022 1

  My god. Hot.

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  Melancholia 2011

  ★★★★ Rewatched 13 Jul 2022

  A magic cave, as the world ends.

Popular reviews

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  Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2020

  This is such a beautiful account of Joan Didion’s existence. I had read Play It As It Lays and was curiously yet reluctantly drawn to the protagonist and the cynical, somber mood. Reluctantly, because I saw parts of myself within the characters cynicism, frustration, and despair in the face of barren, yet beautiful landscapes. This documentary traverses Didion’s life across decades of historical movements. It hit me during a time where I have not picked up a pen in what…

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  Moonrise Kingdom 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Oct 2019

  This film beautifully captures the ferocity and child-like simplicity of a first love, and the frailties of the human condition in a cunning and visually comedic style. 

  Anderson depicts the plague of being born into a tumultuous and confusing world that too often denies children agency and the capacity to create autonomous decisions, uncover their own truths, and to love. The children are granted both sexuality and agency as twelve year olds thrusted into the chaos of the adults around them. 

  It’s also just hilariously sweet and made me laugh out loud. Such a pretty, pretty, film. I like it.

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