Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Devil Times Five 1974

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  One of those true ‘70s grindhouse movies that seems to have just kind of seeped out of the muddy ground. Bleak, ugly, and mean, but undeniably (and intentionally) funny and featuring several dynamic performances (especially the killer kids) and some potent imagery.

  Super boring for long stretches but it makes up for it in the ultraviolent home stretch.

  Watching my entire collection in alphabetical order: Movie #412 (watched with the commentary from the Hysteria Continues! podcast folks)

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  The Electric State 2025

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Once I got over the fact that this film adaptation of The Electric State is a completely different experience than Simon Stålenhag’s brilliant and haunting graphic novel, I could enjoy it as a silly action adventure with the occasional striking visual.

  Back to the graphic novel for a moment: I can’t recommend it highly enough. I can’t remember how I first encountered Stålenhag’s work (my chosen poster for the film is one of his) but the juxtapositions of recognizable modern living…

Popular reviews

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  Evil Dead 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Apr 2013 28

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Fly 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Sep 2013 15

  It's been a Cronenberg family kind of day, what can I say?

  How can a movie simultaneously be one of the most viscerally disturbing monster movies ever AND one of the most heartbreaking, tragic love stories of the 1980s? It's a rarity to find a movie that hits so squarely on all intended marks (scares, suspense, gross-out moments, special effects, emotional intensity...), but David Cronenberg's still-stunning remake of THE FLY (oh yeah, it's also one of the greatest remakes of…