Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Demon City 2025

  ★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Great action can make up for so many things but when you lack even the semblance of a personality it just can't carry you, lives and dies on the demonic concept but it ends up as a crutch that they have to keep falling back on in leu of anything real, watchable but never becomes anything more then a surface level romp.

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  Shinobugawa 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  Enchanting, as you would expect of Obayashi's work, but with a lens focused on a more traditional endeavour then most of the work I've seen from him. There's a reverence for the source material that commands the camera to keep a soft and measured approach, feeling closer to a one act play then a film in its majority, but still allowing bouts of flair to give the story being told life in its muted visuals. I'm so far limited on…

Popular reviews

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  AquaSlash 2019

  ½ Watched 29 Sep 2020

  Pushes the boundaries of what can be considered film

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  The Menu 2022

  ★ Watched 23 Nov 2022

  A film with intense hatred for its subjects and subject matter. A constant and abrasive wink at the audience with nothing to say beyond inclusion of the same tired joke, isn't all this fancy dining so strange? It has one note and plays it to death, that these people are obnoxious and you shouldn't feel bad when something awful happens to them which would be fine if these people were terrible in any way beyond standard characetures of the vile…