Favorite films

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  Tampopo 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Watched when I had a cold.

   So very lovely. Fucking, food, fun with friends.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★½ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  Liked the first third, all the surreal shit. Too bad it became like an errand-adventure movie. 

  Also, if vampiring someone is sexual, then when boys get vampired by nosferatu it’s gay and I’m tired of pretending that’s not true.

Popular reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2024

  Great! What fun! Very sexy! Correctly, it takes the unevenness of the sexual relation, that we are never ‘on the same page’, and makes this discrepancy produce pleasure. We only ever come together (so to speak), non-simultaneously. We meet where we diverge: the game presupposes that the ball is in one court and not another’s. 

  This is the best movie about heterosexuality in a while.

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★ Watched 19 Jan 2024

  This movie made me very angry. A shock-value film for virgins, for whom depictions of sex can only elicit nervous laughter. Saltburn is sexually regressive. it feels like a puritan’s attempt to be to be erotic: ultimately what is demonstrated is a disdain for what is human in the perverse (which is exactly what can make perversion so compelling!). It’s not interesting or even transgressive to attribute all kinds of ‘weirdo’ sexuality to a character who is otherwise written incoherently—in…

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