Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  They Live 1988

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  the street fight went on for SO long and made me SO upset. like ok Carpenter i know you weren’t trying to be subtle in framing a metaphor about classist in-fighting instead of targeting the real oppressors but. c‘mon man

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  Aliens 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Mother on mother action!!! (literally and queerly)

Popular reviews

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  The Mother and the Whore 1973

  ★★★★ Added

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Stray Dog 1949

  ★★★★★ Added

  I am shocked at how early this movie was for Kurosawa and how masterful it is, how incredible the atmosphere he achieves is. The movie is partially about the evil done in our names (the crimes committed with Murakami's stolen gun), and the restlessness and poverty and clear unprocessed grief of post-war Japan mix with the dreamy heat wave weather to make something really special and effective. Everyone is so sweaty and desperate and needy and heartfelt except for Murakami's…

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