Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Man with a Movie Camera 1929

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2020

  elevates the filmmaker to the status of worker

Recent reviews

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  Punch-Drunk Love 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  I feel a little sad that I don't connect to this at all anymore

  New PTA sure is a lot better though, wow.

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  Praying for Armageddon 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  There’s gotta be a better way to get plumbing on two legs, cause this species is not viable.

Popular reviews

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  Empire of Dust 2011

  ★★★ Watched 07 Apr 2019

  Chinese: So do you have gravel?
  Congolese: How much do you need?
  Chinese: I don't know.
  Congolese: It's x amount per m3
  Chinese: I don't have any money
  Congolese: Well, I don't know
  Chinese: Well why did I come down here?! these Africans don't know anything!

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  Island of Lost Souls 1932

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Apr 2020

  through the interplay of 'real' bars and the shadow lines of Karl Struss's brilliant cinematography, the movie outlines the way in which the cage creates the animal, and finds that true civilizing power lies in emancipation, far beyond any book

  a great performance here by Charles Laughton, as the doomed sadomasochistic pervert Dr Moreau, who tries desperately to prop up the law in spite of his punishing intellect