Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blue Chips 1994

  ★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Shaq is so charming here. Why was he doing Kazam… dude should’ve been Kindergarten Cop or something

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  Dressed to Kill 1980

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Is to Psycho what Body Double is to Rear Window and Vertigo. Unfortunately it also contains a few of the worst elements of Psycho for whatever reason. But I appreciate the focus on how society punishes “older” women for having desires or pleasure. 

  Also, when Nancy Allen shows up in lingerie… holy moley.

Popular reviews

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  The War on Disco 2023

  ★★ Watched 31 Oct 2023

  Not worth watching if you already know anything about this subject. A decent primer for people who want to learn more about this cultural flashpoint. Underwhelming both in its presentation of the information and its selection of interviews.

  This whole program centers around the 1979 Disco Demolition Night, when a plan to detonate disco records at Comiskey Park between Chicago White Sox games turned from a publicity stunt for a rock radio station into a full-fledged riot. Hundreds of people…

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  Priscilla 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Nov 2023

  The Elvis in Baz Luhrmann's 2022 biopic was a naive man child devoid of agency. That was one of my biggest problems with that bloated movie. Rather than telling an honest story about a real person with a complex legacy, Luhrmann got wrapped up in the mythology of The King and tried to paint him as both a phenomenon and a hopelessly manipulated kid. Anything cool Elvis did in that movie was due to his supernatural gifts; anything bad that…