Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Death in Venice 1971

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? for self-hating gays

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  Ghost 1990

  ★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  Goofy boots!! Cultural politics obviously whack. Whoopi ate down. Patrick Swayze lowkey serving classical melodrama realness, but maybe that’s just because she’s always miss Vida Boheme to me

Popular reviews

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  A largely pleasant viewing experience (I like watching people go about their mundane daily routines & I like dad rock) that leaves a sour aftertaste. Between the touristic orientalism & cringey boomer-core observations about the changing world - not to mention the belaboured dialogue & the truly godawful cop-out ending - the whole thing sadly just rings false

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  Swing Kids 2018

  ½ Watched 25 Apr 2022 1

  Fucking horrible. Thought this might be lazily apolitical but it is actually 2 hours of aggressively centrist ‘stop the violence’ bullshit that often feels more like overt anti-communist propaganda, never even approaching the nuances of American violence in Korea whilst caricaturing communists as brainwashed, bloodthirsty fools. Truly difficult to overstate how asinine the film’s philosophy is (at one point one of the characters earnestly says if no one knew about capitalism or communism no one would kill or be killed…

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