Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Castle Ghosts of Ireland 1996

  Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Ireland should be proud that it has by far the freakiest fucking ghosts to reside in the decaying stone caverns of ancient castles (at least of these episodes). I would love to live in Leap Castle.

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  Rewatched 27 Mar 2025

  This is just the prototype for twin peaks, but in a really good way.

Popular reviews

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  Sweet Smell of Success 1957

  Watched 07 Nov 2018 2

  New York looks wonderful in the fall, and even better in shiny, silky black and white. This is the film that I feel I have always envisioned the noir genre to be. The nightlife is seemingly never ending, the characters are all smarmy, and they’re all either standing under bright dazzling lights or tucked away in shadows. I had no idea what the story was going to really be about, I walked in the theater really for Tony “Ice Cream…

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  Black Christmas 1974

  Watched 19 Dec 2018

  Bob Clark pulls from the early horror successes and later comedy hits to let you know one thing: Felatio, it’s a new exchange. There’s always a dry, maybe absurd sense of humor in his films, even other horror efforts like Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, but this would have to be easily the most jarring. Maybe it’s even more disturbing because of how normal and goofy things feel one moment, with drunken college kids and cursing Santa Claus, giving…