Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Brainscan 1994

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

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

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★ Rewatched 15 Feb 2025

  Was so psyched for this and saw it in the theater the first week I moved to LA, have revisited a couple times since then, but this still remains my least favorite Lynch. An experiment that’s clearly made up as he went and feels like it shoulda just been released on davidlynch.com in the mid 2000s. Kinda wanna dip below three stars, but I’m leaving it outta respect to the master. 

  Not to self: no need to revisit this one.

Popular reviews

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  Nomadland 2020

  ½ Watched 28 Feb 2021 3

  Fuck this movie. Poverty porn, Amazon propaganda, Oscar bait bullshit. Frances McDormand should be ashamed of herself for this, LARPing as a nomad while surrounded by people who are actually poor and poverty stricken. Frances & Chloé Zhao need to have a listen to PULP’s ‘Common People,’ because they clearly don’t fucking get it. 

  Linda May (an actual nomad who ACTUALLY works for Amazon) who is featured in this movie was quoted in Nomadland, the book, as saying; “I hate this fucking…

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  Pig 2021

  ★½ Watched 17 Jul 2021

  I really wanted to like this, but it’s a major eye roll from me. In fact, my eyes rolled back so far when that cover song played over the closing credits that I now have to get corrective eye surgery. 

  It’s not Nic Cage’s fault, tho. He’s fine here. The thing is, you can have a one sentence story like “Man wants to find his kidnapped pig” and make it interesting, but this wasn’t, and felt stretched to it’s breaking…