Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Oh boy, is Nosferatu Robert Eggers’ best film yet? I would venture to say yes, it is. Eggers nails the psycho-sexual nature of the vampire mythos, in which the vampire serves as a symbol for rape, sinful pleasure, venereal/infectious disease, criminal deviancy/insanity, predatory/parasitic creatures, and the spread of the occult. Nosferatu, like all of his previous films, blends historical authenticity with the beliefs and fears of the time and place being depicted in a manner so convincingly haunting and dense with lore that it becomes a world unto itself. A nightmare, driven by Robert Eggers’ singular vision.

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  The Bikeriders 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2024

  As a dude who likes to shoot film and get tattooed by other dudes who like to chop their own motorcycles yeah this movie resonated with me. It was a bit trite and predictable but yeah it resonated with me.

Popular reviews

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  Diamonds Are Forever 1971

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2023

  Diamonds are Forever is perhaps my biggest guilty pleasure film in the Bond series. This one has such a weird feel to it, set in Las Vegas of all places and recasting Sean Connery (who’s now rocking quite the dad bod) after his hiatus from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

  The overall vibe and setting make Diamonds the sleaziest and scuzziest Bond film in my opinion, and I’m here for every second of it. Hell, the pre-title sequence has a…

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  Glass Onion 2022

  ½ Watched 26 Dec 2022

  I don’t suffer shitty movies gladly and this turd is such a stinker that I can’t help but make a big stink about it. Rian Johnson is simply a poor writer, pulling dumb shit out of your ass to “subvert the audiences expectations” is not clever, it’s just dumb. Like the original Knives Out, his commentary on social trends and politics are incredibly on the nose, unsubtle, and ultimately adds up to a lot of talk without contributing anything of value…

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