Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  North by Northwest 1959

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  “I’m an ad man, not a red herring”

  I wish I could recreate the high I felt when the auctioneer opens the bid for a pair of Louis XVI fauteuils, 450 in 1959 dollars was quite the deal! 

  Currently experiencing the late winter blight of central Illinois, that crop dusting scene really got me.

  A guy I used to date had a custom suit made to the specifications of Cary Grant’s in this. Fair enough!

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  Charade 1963

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  “Do we know each other?”

  “Why, do you think we’re going to?”

Popular reviews

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Saw this with the ex of Brutalist fame and it also smelled like piss in the theater, kinda 4d if u think about it. As a survivor of the actual Inland Empire I must say Lynch really nails the abjection and uncanniness of living in the shadow of LA. Those of us banished to the hinterland of San Bernardino/Riverside counties know it’s a site of spiritual penance and a portal to the astral realm. Notable this was released in 2006…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Jan 2025 2

  silence architectural historians, a chair expert is speaking:

  what is an object? what does it matter who is speaking? concretism reigns.

  aesthetically perfect ending—sorry haters and losers, how else is history formed?

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  other points of interest:

  1) the man next to me was detained by police mid film

  2) awesome movie to get broken up with after seeing truly nothing like it