Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Fish & Cat 2013

  Watched 08 Jun 2023

  "Does this festival have a champion? I mean will there be a winner?"

  Here's one of the vanishingly small number of films I've seen that engages seriously with the idea (out of Tarr thru Van Sant) of long-take cinema as an unplayable video game. The iconic back-of-head walking simulator shots are here (often accompanied by attention-grabbing Michael Nyman-esque score), but more importantly there's a structural permeation of game grammar that's unmistakable.

  In place of a setting, scenes are set on…

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  The Spitfire Grill 1996

  Watched 09 Jan 2024 6

  Look, I'm sure the three (3) credited dialogue coaches on this film worked hard, but there's nothing quite like a passel of working actors force-feeding spoken English through the cracked prism that is the Maine accent. Over here there's Will Patton giving his a healthy splash of Southern Comfort, and over there we have Marcia Gay Harden who's Katherine Hepburn from the chest and then sort of a Down East Moaning Myrtle when she goes up high. And in the…

Recent reviews

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  Imitation of Life 1959

  Rewatched 14 Mar 2025

  Forgot that Lana Turner gets the part of a lifetime in a film by legendary Italian director "Amarico Felucci"

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  Badlands 1973

  Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  Looked up a badland on Wikipedia and oh brother they look nothing like any landscape in this entire motion picture and you certainly could never drive a Cadillac through one even if you were Martin Sheen himself. The cinema of Terrence Malick transcends geological categories.

Popular reviews

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  All Too Well: The Short Film 2021

  ½ Watched 21 Nov 2021

  I watched short films for a living for 8 years so I'm professionally qualified to tell you that this blows.

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  Asteroid City 2023

  Watched 28 Jun 2023 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.