Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Boys Don't Cry 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Brandon Teena's life feels so layered, so much was going on in such a short time in his life. For the window of time we peak through to see who he was, I saw someone who was headstrong, but scared. When we first see Brandon going into a roller disco and later a bar, we see someone who isn't happy, but we see someone with a well placed stuffed sock and a new haircut who feels confident in their own…

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  Vanilla Sky 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  I don't know what I found more amusing: Tom Cruise shouting "Tech Support!" Or my imagining Cruise with the jaw prosthetic as Robert Z'Dar in a biopic.

  This is a mode I never thought I was going to enjoy at any point of my life, but Tom Cruise having a relationship in a movie with at least two women, which is far and away from my own life, and being engrossed by it for 135 minutes, and while there is…

Popular reviews

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  Zoo 2007

  ★★ Watched 23 Jul 2018

  Boy, this season of Bojack Horseman got uncomfortable quickly.

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  Overnight 2003

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Jan 2015

  As I watched Overnight, the documentary about The Boondock Saints' director Troy Duffy and his rise and fall as a filmmaker, the psychological disorder Delusions of Grandeur popped into my head. As far as I can see and say in my not so medical opinion, he's a textbook case. Need anymore proof? He thought he was so big, he wanted to have the directors of this movie follow him around to chronicle his success as this next big star BEFORE…