Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Porco Rosso 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Feb 2022

  so cool!! so cool!!! so cool!!

  everything about this is so cool this is now in the very top top echelons of ghibli for me

  simply gushing over this one

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  Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2022

  quite comprehensive about dynamics within the group, something you actually cannot get by listening to their music

  what a fighter phife is!!!

Popular reviews

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  Cowboy Bebop 1998

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2020 2

  effortlessly "cool", whatever that word means

  i think it's just the right fusion of a multitude of different sources that just somehow "clicks", and watanabe seems to be very well-versed in finding those perfect combinations

  here, jazz, film-noir, hong-kong action films (john woo era), space meld together in the medium of animation and it's just right for some reason

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  Peninsula 2020

  ½ Watched 22 Jul 2020 1

  this is a disgrace to the cannes badge

  yeon sang ho just recycles all the themes he milked to death in "train to busan", (self-sacrifice, familial connection, people going mad in the face of peril, and past guilt causing jarringly rapid character development)
  adds even more people crying and calling out in slow motion, lazily slaps it together and calls it a film

  the only thing good about "train to busan" was the train, it itself was a blatantly tearjerking…