Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Pushed the absurdity a little too far by the end for my taste, kind of undercutting some of the underlying menace of the first act, but I especially enjoyed all of the childhood stuff.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jan 2025

  On second viewing this is undoubtedly my favorite movie of 2024. Its lush gothic imagery exudes evil and the aura of looming, all-encompassing decay. It’s the narrative equivalent of a shadow cast by a long forgotten weather-worn headstone over cold grey barren earth. It’s the perfect, definitive depiction of vampirism in film.

Popular reviews

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  Evil Bong 2006

  ★★ Watched 20 Apr 2020

  I don’t get high on illegal substances.
  I get high on cinema.

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  The Fly 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Apr 2020 1

  I can’t name another film that gets under my skin the same way David Cronenberg’s reimagining of The Fly does. It may very well be the movie that frightens me the most.

  The human body is terrifying — it is to me, at least. It’s the intrinsic uncertainties of the flesh that problematize it; the imperfection of the human machine. It has the ability to turn on us abruptly, often without our knowing it until too late. Even in moments…