Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mermaid Legend 1984

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Rest of the film is pretty good but the climax/finale is unforgettable

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  Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Some all-time jokes and bits in this, and the production is pretty astounding. Loved the sets and costumes. But as a whole it feels so much louder and less clever than the first film. So many jokes that are just references to things.

Popular reviews

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  The Beach Boys 2024

  ★★½ Watched 21 May 2024

  Hi, I traveled to New York City to watch this softball documentary of this incredibly strange old band on a 100-foot IMAX screen because that’s just the type of unloveable loser I am. 

  I’ve had to rewrite this a few times because I’m such a nerd and just wanted to endlessly go off about what the documentary DOESN’T cover more than it does. A two-hour movie is just not the right vessel to tell all 50 years of The Beach…

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  Madame Web 2024

  ★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2024

  Wow there is a lot I want to say about this. I really don’t even know where to begin. What is this movie? Why are we here? What do the filmmakers and studio want us to feel? At its core is a kinda cool story? It’s The Terminator but with a legally distinct evil spider person hunting down three teens who will in the future become spider women, and the one woman who can protect them has Butterfly Effect/Final Destination…

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