Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Lots of fun and captures the supposed chaos of the evening, but all in all feels like a shallower and less-engaging version of September 5. I will say if the casting Oscar was a thing this year, this should have 100% been in contention because…wow. It was like a time machine back to 1975.

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  Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Could’ve been a miniseries. Moves very fast to get the everything in, but my gosh what a force of nature. Miss him so much.

Popular reviews

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  Mars One 2022

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2022

  Sundance Film #3

  
  An unfocused movie with the best of intentions, Mars One soars when it hits the right notes, but unfortunately is too scattered in what it’s trying to accomplish for anything to land with as much impact as I’m sure was intended. The opening half hour feels at times like it’s trying too hard to take beats from last year’s Lovers Rock before ultimately settling into a story about a family of four being seemingly pulled in four…

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  Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2022

  Sundance Film #10

  So glad I was able to finish my Sundance weekend with this gem. 

  This film resonated with me tremendously. I can remember finishing grad school and being 24 and having absolutely no clue what was next for me. I didn’t work at Meat Sticks or anything like that, but I moved back in with my folks in a small town in Alabama while I tried to figure out what to do next. I felt so stuck, and…