Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Departed 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  “Business is bad? You opened a store in an Irish neighborhood. These are dirty, dirty people. Sell potatoes, I don’t know what you’re gonna do.”

  Rewatching this today because at its core, St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday not for the Irish, but for Irish-Americans. Where do you think all the snakes went?

  Movie about irrational violence and racism, police corruption, and lying. In other words, the Irish-American experience.

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  The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Movie about the IRA, a little-known social club in Ireland that centered around drinking whiskey, watching UFC fight compilations on YouTube, and never doing anything wrong.

  Tiocfaidh ár lá

Popular reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2024 1

  Cut out my favorite storyline but proves Villeneuve understands the meaning of Dune: converting to Islam and doing drugs with your mom

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  Godzilla vs. Kong 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2021 1

  One of the better films in the MonsterVerse, Godzilla vs Kong delivers on the premise of its title. It gives a definitive winner, but falls into the trap that all these matchup movies fall into by needing a greater evil for the heroes to ultimately defeat. Whereas in a movie like Batman v. Superman, the human heroes act irrationally up until the last minute to fight the threat, this “twist” is less effective in a kaiju movie where there should…