Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Warriors 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2023

  A true classic with a well-paced plot, some of the best scenery-chewing classically trained actors put to screen, and a version of New York that feels like a dangerous, mysterious fantasy world of colorful gangs and conspiracy. Fun, creative, and just plain cool.

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  Nope 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2022

  I'll admit it, I didn't really like the first act of this movie. It felt aimless and like the film was going through the motions to get to the concepts it wanted to play with.

  When it gets going though? Despite how silly it sounds to describe to someone the story is fascinating, unflinchingly terrifying at parts, and as with all of Peele's movies; entrenched in a bunker of clearly voiced themes.

  Stay for the monster, it's one of my favorite cinematic monsters in years.

Popular reviews

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  Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery 2015

  ★ Watched 08 Mar 2022

  the Scooby Doo gang (apparently the biggest Kiss fans in the universe) visit a Kiss theme park and are menaced by the band itself, who act as mystery solving rivals. In reality they turn out to be interdimensional aliens with real fucking superpowers in charge of guarding a magical diamond from a demonic space witch. Also there is a romantic subplot between one of the band members and Daphne, for some ungodly reason.

  This movie is a ride which is only made more insane and bad by the presence of Kiss.

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  The Last Unicorn 1982

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Mar 2022

  "She will remember you when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits."

  This is far from a perfect movie, and I'd strain to say that it's a good movie for most people, but if you're into animation and thinking about hard subjects, this movie is oddly beautiful and meditative in its themes of death, legacy, and identity to the point that when I first saw this I was crying by the end. It's a tale less about its…

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