Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Need to watch it again. Didn’t realize it was Jim Jarmusch when I saw the insanely dated poster but thought it would be fun. Instead of the campy, goofy 90s action film I expected it’s a mostly meditative look at culture. We are all apart of one story yet we all have our own perspective, our own culture. Despite what we might think we aren’t so different. Nothing makes sense and yet everything does.

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  Presence 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Could see this going up on rewatch, loved it. Legitimately the most fascinating thing a big name director has made in recent memory. Experimental in its execution and how it plays with cliches of haunted house movies. Obviously it was billed as said haunted house film but it’s truly the opposite of the spooky ghost movie you’d expect. In fact, it’s a shockingly potent family drama about people cracking under the strain of death and trauma. Brought to life through…

Popular reviews

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  Fanboys 2009

  ★★ Watched 13 Jul 2021

  I feel most bad for the guy with cancer. Not because he had cancer but because he had to watch a ROUGH cut of The Phantom Menace.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Covers literally every base. Individuality, personal growth, immigration, monarchy, religious puppeteers, fear of the unknown, hostility towards other races, and of course the finality of death. It’s a microcosm of man - I mean human kind. Being alive is uncomfortable, messy, funny, tragic, and completely overwhelming. Just like this.