Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Still the most nerve wracking shit I’ve ever seen and Adam Sandler punches so far above his weight it’s criminal he didn’t get nominated 

  When is David Spade getting his A24

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  Lost in America 1985

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Finally watched my first Albert Brooks film, and it was what I hoped it would be. 

  This is basically Vacation if it was made with a proto-Curb Your Enthusiasm sensibility, and covered in that cynical, 70s alt-comic style of Brooks, used here to blister yuppies and 80s greed culture. 

  The sardonicism of Brooks, paired with the naive goofiness of Hagerty, is so fun to watch, and the script feels so naturalistic that it almost feels like improv. Like a Woody…

Popular reviews

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  Kwaidan 1964

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Nov 2018

  This movie has style for days and plot for minutes. An absolutely stunning visual treat slightly let down by the glacial pace and the perfunctory third story (Hoichi the Earless) that could’ve been 30 minutes shorter. 

  Still, the mood and atmosphere that Kobayashi creates is unlike anything I’ve ever seen, and it’s worth watching solely for that.

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  Hellraiser 2022

  ★ Watched 09 Oct 2022

  You know what’s scarier than a brilliantly transgressive story of people’s lust and extreme desires leading to interdimensional suffering? 

  Watching the 1,000th movie of boring millennials having trauma that is somehow manifested by ghouls. 

  Honestly, this has more in common with an early 2000s Thirteen Ghosts/feardotcom type movie (but without the fun) than Hellraiser, with its supernatural spookshow effects and creature design. 

  Everyone should be ashamed for ruining Barker’s work like this and turning it into yet another dull A24-esque…