Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Contagion 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2024

  It’s sad this film didn’t warn us like the cautionary tale that it was intended as. It makes me cry, for those lost to COVID.

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  Mallrats 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Oct 2020

  — taken from my review of the 2020 Arrow Video Blu-ray release — 

  “Mallrats” was a 1995 comedy written & directed by Kevin Smith. Smith is best known for also writing & directing the films “Clerks” (1994), “Chasing Amy” (1997), “Dogma” (1999), “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” (2001), “Clerks II” (2006), “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” (2008), “Red State” (2011), and “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” (2019) — to just name a few. The film was produced by Smith’s longtime…

Popular reviews

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Oct 2020

  Taken from: My Blu-ray Review

  “Parasite” (also known by its original name “Gisaengchung”) was a 2019 South Korean film co-written and directed by Bong Joon Ho. Ho is best known for writing & directing other successful South Korean films like “The Host” (2006), “Mother” (2009), “Snowpiercer” (2013), and “Okja” (2017). To first give you an idea of what type of movie this is, it falls under the genres of comedy, crime, and drama. That said, I’m not going to get too…