Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  As a cat daddy simply seeing a cat in distress will wreck me emotionally

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  Lonely Hearts Club 1995

  ★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Very strange, surrealist watch that definitely took a while to get into. The Lynch influence is clear but it lacks the punchier comedy in Lynch’s work, which results in a lot of very empty feeling moments of longing that can be too drawn out. Sometimes it’s unclear what a character’s depth is outside of feeling a longing for something.

  I have yet to watch Blue Gate Crossing so this has made me curious to see how these initial ideas and themes developed into his more highly acclaimed work.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Dec 2022

  Seeing this on 70mm was fantastic! Probably not one I’ll sit thru again, felt it dragging around the 2 hour mark, but I’m glad I pushed past the awful trailer to go see this one in theaters.

  Also: was not ready for the Toby Maguire jumpscare. Holy shit.

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  Eega 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Nov 2022

  Had the opportunity to ask Rajamouli after a showing if he thinks twice about killing flies now.

  He said no, but it took a while after the film had wrapped to be able to kill a fly again. They spent hours capturing and studying flies to understand their movements and tendencies, trying to decipher how they could make a fly seem human. It shows. 

  I did not expect the CGI fly to make for such a great character. The fly’s…

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