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If the movie theater bans me for hollering at the screen,
I will face God and walk backwards into Hell.

Favorite films

  • Return to Oz
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Saturday Night Fever
  • Day of the Dead

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  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    ★★★★

  • The Insider

    ★★★★½

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    ★★★

  • Dancer in the Dark

    ★★★★

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  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    To Live and Die in L.A.

    ★★★★

    You just know that William Petersen’s character will be an unconscionable asshole after he prevents a terrorist from suicide bombing Ronald Reagan.

  • The Insider

    The Insider

    ★★★★½

    Great movie, but the premise that testimony from a scientist matters even one iota is sort of laughable and hard to watch as fucking RFK Jr. presides over HHS.

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  • Witches

    Witches

    ★★

    The central thesis is fascinating—that certain historically documented confessions of witchcraft sound suspiciously similar to descriptions of postpartum psychosis, with women reporting to have seen the devil tempting them to kill their children. Unfortunately it takes the film nearly an hour to arrive here. Prior to that there are really heartbreaking personal testimonies that would make for an excellent piece of long-form journalism, but these testimonies are frustratingly set to clips of films with only a superficial relevance to the…

  • Chime

    Chime

    ★★★★

    Contemporary American horror has been criticized for a perceived overreliance on allegory, for grief or other struggles considered to be internal to the self. What I love about Kurosawa is his sociological approach, paying attention to both society and the individual. Matsuoka is suffering internally and he is told to his face several times that he talks about himself too much. Yet the scope here goes beyond the main character—the horror is an epidemic. Others are suffering just as much in…