Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Project A-Ko 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Sep 2016

  A-Ko's very near and dear to my heart. It was the first anime I saw with explicit knowledge of it BEING ANIME. I'd seen some of those localized shows from the early 80s (Voltron being my favorite), but that was no different from Muppet Babies or Superfriends in my mind-- it was all goofy stuff I absorbed at an impressionable age. But THIS was the first thing I rented knowing full well that I was getting into that weird shit…

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  California Crisis: Gun Salvo 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Jan 2019

  Just realized I never posted a link to my review of this thing over on my blog.

  I will champion this strange, apparently unfinished (yet still commercially released in Japan) OVA oddity until the day I die. If anything, it works better NOW than it likely did then, because it's playing with a whole bunch of filtering of nostalgia and foreign pop cultures in ways that feel very much in the vein of more recent trends. It does for 50s…

Recent reviews

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Yeah, this very much has a Made For DVD/Streaming vibe to it, not unlike the Scooby Doo movies that have been around since the late 90s. It's also the best damn example of that vibe I've laid eyes on.

  It's a whisp of a plot-- Porky and Daffy deal with ALIENS who are DOING THINGS-- but that's all we need to give us an excuse for them to do their Looney thing, while also allowing for just enough breathing room…

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  "You and me against the world" is about as hot and romantic a vibe as you can get. It's even better when you don't realize that's the case until about halfway through, so everything that came before that much more hot and romantic.

Popular reviews

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  Snoopy, Come Home 1972

  ★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jul 2021

  Snoopy's An Asshole: The Movie

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  Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2022

  ½ Watched 20 May 2022 1

  The kid who voiced Peter Pan and starred in a bunch of other Disney movies around that time, got dumped by the studio when he got too old, turned to drugs, and died in squalor in his early 30s. Then, 50-something years later, Disney makes a movie about how Peter Pan grows up and turns into a criminal that kidnaps Disney characters to force them into some sort of cartoon slavery.

  We know Disney's evil in that existential, intangible, "too…