Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  First Film of 2025 in Theaters. 
  Mr. Eggers continues to prove once again how much of an amazing and unique filmmaker he is. While I much more prefer his more abstract and experimental films like The Lighthouse, he has been crushing his recent foray into “straightforward”  narrative films. 
  This film is an incredibly beautiful, atmospheric, and genuinely unnerving adaptation of the classic Nosferatu/Dracula tale. It both complements the original film and also carves out its own unique take in a way I’ve never seen Dracula been told before

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  From Up on Poppy Hill 2011

  ★★★ Watched 03 Aug 2024

  While this is far from the worst Studio Ghibli or Goro Miyazaki film, Poppy Hill is a fairly comfy film that struggles with its fragmented storylines that never truly develops or connects each other together in any solid way.
  It reminds me of one of those anime “recap” films, where they would take like twelve episodes of a anime show and edit it together into a 90 minute feature. Sure the plot is easy enough to follow, but it never really connects together into a “complete” satisfying story.

Popular reviews

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  Air 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Apr 2023

  While I’m still not so sure about a movie painting a multi-billion dollar company that uses slave labor to make overpriced sneakers as an inspiring underdog story, this film is expertly written, acted, and paced that I was completely engrossed in this film from beginning to end. And this is coming from a guy that doesn’t give a single shit about sneakers and is too cheap to buy Nike’s of my own.

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  When watching this film in IMAX last night, a thought and feeling that I've only ever felt when watching Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy, the original Star Wars trilogy, or Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace started to creep into my mind during my screening. It’s that a film like this "shouldn’t be able to exist".
  A modern Hollywood blockbuster movie that is so grand in its scope, so rich in its detail and in its world building, that…