Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Magic Toyshop 1987

  Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Jonathan stole the show early and indelibly with his Mark Lester falsetto musical number and sailing obsession, which is bad news for a movie that needs us to think and feel things other than “Why isn’t Jonathan in this scene? How long til we get more Jonathan?”

  I had certain expectations given it was an Angela Carter script, and I have to give this movie credit: on a scene to scene, shot to shot level, it was almost never what I had…

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  The Big Lebowski 1998

  Watched 03 Feb 2025 2

  The closest we'll ever get to that movie about the revolution as seen through the eyes of a pigeon from the studio that brought you Goncharov.

Popular reviews

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  In This Corner of the World 2016

  ★★½ Watched 12 Jul 2020 15

  Let's be clear: the unconscionable carpet bombings by the US of the Japanese mainland and the use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unimaginable crimes against humanity. 

  At the same time, however, that Japan was the victim of an uncontrovertibly racism-inflected, imperialistic approach from the US, it was conducting its own deeply racist project of imperialism in the South Pacific.

  You would not know that from this film.

  This film works very hard instead to present us…

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  Cipher 1989

  ★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2020 2

  oh sure, when hideaki anno does it it's "art," but when this prescient work anticipates every multimedia franchise approach of the next 30 years it's "bewildering" and "not a movie" and "an inexplicable series of decontextualized images and scenes within scenes quoted by scenes set to music for no discernable reason", I see!!! Creamy Mami WHOMST? Everyone who wrote their thesis about Vocaloid or otome game CDs or 2.5d fandom can go HOME and hang their heads in SHAME!

  (not gonna lie I legit loved this. i NEVER want the full backstory.)