Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  "Tell me, does evil come from within us? Or beyond?"

  You truly know what to expect when you walk into the theater for a Robert Eggers film. Filled with precise dialogue, accurate historical depictions and culturally accurate mysticism and mythology.  Nosferatu sits alongside "The Witch", "The Lighthouse" and "The Northman" as modern, visually stunning, historical horror/thriller films that seemingly only Eggers can create at the moment.

  Just as Ellen is drawn to Orlok with lustful desire, so too is the…

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  We Live in Time 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2024

  Whether it is the countdown clock for a cooking competition, your culinary coach's marvelous yet overly protruding wrist watch, a 3 minute iPhone timer (with generous alarm PTSD), or a running stopwatch around the neck, time only counts down and only moves in direction... forward.
  References to our physical representation of time surround John Crowley's film, but I believe another theme reigns supreme throughout.
  Morality. For time is seemingly infinite, yet our place in it is not.

  "We Live in…

Popular reviews

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  ★★ Watched 28 Dec 2021

  This film is listed under the genre "comedy/disaster" and it fits the latter descriptor much more than the former.

  Adam McKay's newest feature documentary/2.5 hour long tik tok should honestly come with an epilepsy warning.

  Props to Timmy C. and Jonah for carrying an otherwise lifeless, satirical attempt to detail the lack of attention given to major and consequential real world events, and the presence of political and social division, that will surely serve to deepen political and social division,…

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  Society of the Snow 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jan 2024

  Beautiful and horrific, majestic and punishing… both a miracle and tragedy.

  I find it difficult to put this film into words. Certainly it is something that should be felt and experienced rather than written or even spoken of.

  Bayona’s adaptation is filled with the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows.  I found myself unable to look away, and at times, even watching through my own fingers.

  I applaud the films pacing and cinematography throughout as it places the…