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Favorite films

  • Red Rooms
  • Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds
  • Hundreds of Beavers
  • Rains Over Babel

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  • Novocaine

    ★★★

  • Final Destination

    ★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

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  • Hundreds of Beavers

    Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★★

    We laughed our asses off this morning.

  • Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds

    Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds

    ★★★★★

    A gorgeous, psychedelic, lyrical, and family friendly look at art creation as therapy.

    A precisely rendered journey plateaued by a vibrantly unique world and biological specificity. This film owes much of itself to many others, and yet, it compiles all of these disparate but wonderful elements into an oven and churns out something undoubtedly singular. It’s Ghibli via France, that’s the reality of how it feels and functionally what it is.

    Of course I must compare it to Hayao Miyazaki’s work,…

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★

    It’s a bit of a head-scratcher in terms of emotional arcs or a believable narrative. 

    Nevertheless, the action is all excellently handled and Jack Quaid has the Everyman Sauce. The movie is paced really nicely and doesn’t leave much fat on the bones. It kind of shows up and does what it needs too without too much to leave behind. There are some REALLY gnarly practical kills in here, a trend that seems to be in high fashion after bleeding…

  • Final Destination

    Final Destination

    ★★½

    It’s hilarious that this movie came out right after Scream considering they share tone but an opposite intention.

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  • Knock at the Cabin

    Knock at the Cabin

    ★★

    Night’s confession to being “Q”.

    Keep your dreams all you right-wing kids! You too may one day be chosen to carry out a cruel fringe internet conspiracy on a family that you previously committed a hate-crime upon and it will SAVE THE FUCKING WORLD.

    Great execution for the first half, loses all its steam in the second. HORRIBLE FUCKING THESIS. The worst part is that everyone involved in the making of this movie seems to have the best of intentions…

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★½

    “You see, Tennis b sex…” - Luca *probably 

    No one can fault a powerful woman who just wants to see her men be better at their craft. 

    Luca’s visual sensibility is maybe at its peak here, perhaps only rivaled by the luscious Italian countryside of CMBYN. Off the charts. Booming with an insatiable pacing set by the insanely precise editing from Marco Costa, swaggering movement by DP Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and to no one’s surprise, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross in…