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Favorite films

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Wings of Desire
  • Network
  • Y Tu Mamá También

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  • The Addiction

    ★★★★½

  • Cowboy Bebop

    ★★★★★

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

  • Mad Max

    ★★★½

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  • The Addiction

    The Addiction

    ★★★★½

    Existence is the search for relief from our habit, and our habit is the only relief we can find.

    Sick fucking movie.

  • Cowboy Bebop

    Cowboy Bebop

    ★★★★★

    Kiiiind of the supreme confection to shake out of the genre blending dimension of postmodernism… you come in for the eminently cool noir aspects, which are already elevating what could just be Saturday morning cartoon for adults… but you stay for the music, the swinging melancholy of this odd and beautiful and wounding world, which is much more than sheen or inspired scoring. It is part of the fabric. The show captures the same idea as what some jazz, especially…

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  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Thought this was for children THERE ARE HUMAN SKINS AND DISMEMBERED FINGERS ADORNING EVERY SET

  • May December

    May December

    ★★★★½

    Just a fuckin home run. Congrats @quinnsh10

    Of any recent movie, it actually made me think of Tár in the way it speaks to and unpacks our contemporary relationship to art, media, and the rampant psychologizing of just about everyone.

    Thought this was going to be a two-hander, but you’ve gotta give it to Charles Melton. I had no idea who this guy was, and he keeps up with two legends and delivers an absolutely outstanding second half performance that…