Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Proposal 2009

  ★★★½ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  I know this mostly just plays out a bunch of rom-com tropes, but hey. Sometimes we don’t need to reinvent the wheel. This movie does it all SO WELL. Issues aside, it’s still super funny and the core relationship is totally believable. Love this.

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  Flipped 2010

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Formulaic, overbearing, ableist. The worst fucking narrative structure known to man. Horrific voice-over and dumb PowerPoint transitions. They even fucked over Anthony Edwards with all that shit, stilted dialogue. Get this movie away from me!!

Popular reviews

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  Daytime Revolution 2024

  ★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2024 1

  A case of amazing material and fascinating history being squandered in the hands of an unfocused team. Lacks a coherent and clear vision, but is a serviceable time capsule of John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosting The Mike Douglas Show in 1972. Their agenda - to reach middle-class Americans (or housewives, as they say) and inspire more sociopolitical engagement/liberate marginalized folks - is sorely underdeveloped as a thematic thread, which continually baffled me as the film stretched on. 

  Some really…

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jun 2021

  Scavenger Hunt #75 | Prompt #22

  The ending struck me silent. Everyone involved in this was a genius. Billy Wilder’s direction is incredible per usual - that one shot after Betty leaves the mansion and the camera tilts up from Joe’s face to see Norma peering down over the landing…. *chefs kiss*

  What’s there to say about a movie that’s been discussed nonstop since its release? All I know is that as someone that grew up on Old Hollywood cinema,…