Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Jan 2025

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  Madame Web 2024

  ★½ Watched 17 Feb 2024

  Terrible, but I was quite entertained and delighted for maybe like a combined 25-30 minutes, variably because of or in spite of that terribleness. I particularly enjoyed how the main way Madame Web’s powers manifest seems to be crashing her car at just the right time.

Popular reviews

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  Belly 1998

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Mar 2022

  Umpteenth viewing (well, 5th or 6th I’d imagine—and my first in like 8 years if not more). Stray thoughts:

  - A cousin to Miami Vice, no? A great style-over-substance/style-as-substance film in a similar way.

  - I am by no means an expert on the technical specifics, but my understanding is that the Coens and Roger Deakins get a lot of credit for aesthetic innovations stemming from shooting on film, digitally scanning it and altering the color/light/etc., and printing back to…

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  First Cow 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 02 Feb 2021

  Simply a lovely movie about the joy of baking, the evil of capitalism, the cozy quasi-queerness of close male friendships, and the majesty of cows. What’s not to like?