Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Conclave 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  They should do this with the Nazarene General Assembly.

• 

  Here 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  Comics are really good at flattening and remixing time. Frank King’s Gasoline Alley strip has tons of examples. My favorite is a beach scene from August 1930. Chris Ware has done a ton to push the form. Brombals Batgirl this January had her own Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase moment as an extended train fight. 

  I haven’t read McGuire’s Here besides a few snippets. But it’s cool to see the fingerprints of comics on this movie.

  There’s one comic that…

Popular reviews

• 

  The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Sep 2021

  So many people at peak hotness. Right up there with Ocean’s 11.

• 

  Don't Worry Darling 2022

  ★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2022 3

  Likely the last one for the year. I probably shouldn’t watch this many movies next year. My eyeballs are hot, my ear hurts, and I’m going to take a nap.

Following