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Favorite films

  • Aliens
  • Suspiria
  • Carrie
  • Chicago

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  • The Last Showgirl

    ★★½

  • Cabaret

    ★★★★★

  • A Woman Under the Influence

    ★★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

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  • The Last Showgirl

    The Last Showgirl

    ★★½

    This was my Sunday Morning Movie this week. I really wanted to love this way more than I did. I was going to give it 2 stars, but the ending is actually well done and helped salvage this mess. The dialogue in this movie is insane and not in a campy/self aware way. Just really really bad dialogue and writing. I genuinely am so shocked we did not get a large showgirl style dance number even once. As much as…

  • Cabaret

    Cabaret

    ★★★★★

    Once again, not going to spend a ton of time reviewing a movie that is one of the most critically acclaimed films ever made, but everything people say about this film is true. There will never be another movie star like Liza ever again. The acting is amazing, the writing is great, choreo is life changing, the lighting and framing of shots are influential and magical. Just watch it. Life IS a Cabaret.

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    Gotta love getting the family together during the holidays to go watch a European gothic psychosexual melodrama! I love how this movie starts with a scare and sets the premise of every thing to come. LRD steals the show from the moment she is on screen and holds the audience captive as she grapples with her relationship with Count Orlock. BS is an amazing and creepy Count who really disappears into his role and delivers on the scares and the…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★½

    I watched this movie last night and cannot stop thinking about it. As soon as I woke up this morning, I checked my back to make sure it wasn’t split open. This movie might be my favorite release of the year. In the year 2024, we, as a society, are constantly bombarded with nutra-ceuticals of all kinds that advertise to alleviate our stress  about material issues that have plagued our thoughts for the last century. There are supplements for weight…

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