Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The First Slam Dunk 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  It’s hard to compare this to the reading experience, which was excellent. The movie is great and picks up with what the manga does best - showing exciting realistic basketball. So many sports anime go crazy with borderline superpowers for all their character and Slam dunk ignores all that in favour of a series of grounded basketball games that really capture the feeling of watching a real game and cheering for your team to win from the sidelines.

  The basketball…

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025 1

  So much better this time around. Last time Kennedy and I watched this we were on a vacation and staying in a tiny air BnB and watched it on a laptop at the height of its hype, and while I remember liking it, it didn’t really stick with me too much.

  This time around it really hit how intentional every single piece of the movie is. This is so much more than a “rich people bad” movie, but that’s kinda…

Popular reviews

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  The Thing 1982

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  I don’t know if I’ve ever gotten jump scared as much as that blood test scene. Phenomenal work.

  Great movie with incredible practical effects. And so many practical effects! I’ve gotten so used to the sentiment in horror where it’s scarier to never show the monster and just leave it ambiguous - but watching the dog face peel off like 25 minutes in? Crazy. Turns out if you just go hard enough it’s better to just show it all actually.…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025 1

  I didn’t know actors were allowed to be that creative with their vocal performances and have it not be bad!

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  Mickey 17 is a fun and polished experience. Robert Pattersons vocal performance is an incredible achievement. The visual style was excellent. The premise is super fun - I do wish they played with the aging/not aging aspect of it a bit more, but they explored a lot of cool concepts with it.

  I like Mickey a lot. His character…