Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Prestige 2006

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025

  “Obsession is a young man’s game”

  Watching all of the major Christopher Nolans in chronological order makes this line from Michael Caine particularly delightful. Memento’s lead did a lot better with obsession than these.

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  One Hour Photo 2002

  ★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  It was fine? I was expecting more from everything I’d heard in the decades since it came out, but everything is as two dimensional as a print and needs the technician in to correct for the underdevelopment.

Popular reviews

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  Foxfire 1996

  ★★★½ Watched 04 May 2019

  Amazon’s summary says that in Foxfire, “the girls learn about lesbianism, drug addiction and empowerment,” which is kind of a weird way to say that baby butch Angelina Jolie sweeps into town to (physically) take down the patriarchy and make girls swoon.

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  Christmas Cupid 2010

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Dec 2019

  Christmas Cupid very knows what it is. And what it IS is a Christmas Carol rip-off, but about a young fabulous publicist in LA instead of Scrooge, her wild starlet client who dies by choking on a martini olive instead of Jacob Marley, and three ex-boyfriends instead of ghosts of Christmas. And based on how concerned everyone is about her college boyfriend’s broken heart, I’m pretty sure he’s both Belle and Tiny Tim.